IDENTIFICATION OF KNOWLEDGE AND PROCESSES IN DESIGN PROJECTS

DS 80-10 Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED 15) Vol 10: Design Information and Knowledge Management Milan, Italy, 27-30.07.15

Year: 2015
Editor: Christian Weber, Stephan Husung, Marco CantaMESsa, Gaetano Cascini, Dorian Marjanovic, Srinivasan Venkataraman
Author: Schmidt, Danilo Marcello; Kammerl, Daniel; Schultz, Bernhard; Schenkl, Sebastian Alexander; Moertl, Markus
Series: ICED
Institution: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Section: Design Information and Knowledge Management
Page(s): 283-292
ISBN: 978-1-904670-73-5
ISSN: 2220-4334

Abstract

As market's requirements change, companies have to conserve, develop and manage their knowledge to provide more complex products. For this reason and in the background of knowledge management, it is necessary to detect knowledge gaps in the company or in a department. We built a methodology, which firstly identifies the processes running in the concerned unit and the knowledge, which is needed to complete those processes. Thereby, our approach focus on the granularity of the knowledge and process elements. This enables quantitative analysis methods for knowledge structures to provide results that are more valid. To evaluate this granularity, we applied our approach in a design project.

Keywords: Design Process, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Elements, Knowledge Mapping

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