Industries have vast ‘Knowledge Banks’ of design rules and procedures. These “knowledge banks” can exist in many forms, such as:
- Spread sheets,
- Handbooks,
- Engineering formulas,
- Proprietary software,
- Human judgment,
- Rules of thumb.
Knowledge Based Engineering is fundamentally about re-use in Engineering knowledge to further multiply productivity by ‘documenting’ rules and using them to ‘automate’ design procedures.
"Technology in the 21st Century is going to be less about discovering new phenomenon and more about putting known things together with greater imagination and efficiency."
"By progressively automating lower level repeated tasks as well as higher level product development processes, well-structured Knowledge Based Engineering systems allow organizations to capture and reuse product development experience at many levels."
"By progressively automating lower level repeated tasks as well as higher level product development processes, well-structured Knowledge Based Engineering systems allow organizations to capture and reuse product development experience at many levels."