Business Practices
Knowledge Acquisition (KA):
KA allows companies to capture and deploy all sorts of product and process knowledge that you may consider important for a product or its family. By virtue of its object-oriented class definitions and other "rules chaining techniques," KA methods know the inherent tree structures and rule dependencies. If a change in some design are demanded by a design engineer or the associated program, forward or backward chaining logic automatically re-executes only the portion of the design, which are impacted (or are dependent upon that change), thus, saving a lot of time in unnecessary iterations.
Language Encoding
In the context of knowledge acquisition, language encoding describes a scripting capability that enables the encoding and evaluation of general-purpose rules to any CAD object (2D or 3D). These rules are useful for applying non-geometric constraints (such as material attributes, cost factors or legislative criteria) to a 3D model of a part or a product. Users can employ similar configuration rules to determine a variation of the initial product shape into new topology, new or modified 3D geometry (such as new points, lines, arcs, surfaces or new solids) and their attributes. Such capabilities provide CAD users or PLM customers with the ability to capture their own corporate knowledge and use it to automate design, engineering and manufacturing processes/ functions of their product or its family.
Language-based KA techniques are emerging as popular capturing techniques to mine the product and process knowledge and reuse it later to massively reduce design/ development time and cost, while simultaneously improving the cost, performance, and quality of the end product.
Most companies employ Language based KA methods/techniques and tools for modeling parts and capturing knowledge into parameters, relations, and rules. Today, using such language –based KA capability (like DS/KnowlegeWare and NX/KnowledgeFusion), PLM customers are making the assignment, management and utilization of abstract rules to an object. They are encoding both geometric and non-geometric constraints to their 3D models. This type of encoding methodology is often referred as Generative Modeling.
Parametric Encoding
A misunderstanding that often arises with language encoding is that it is only an alternative to parametrics. This can sometimes be propagated by some computer-aided design (CAD) vendors, who may not have KA language (KAL) tools or perhaps never understood what power KAL tools brings to the users when it is combined with other CAD tools. The truth is that KAL does not remove the need for parametrics or WAVE (What if Analysis and Value Engineering). Parametrics and WAVE for CAD modelling are good tools for capturing 3D geometry and associated details like lines and surfaces.
KAL capturing tools do more than parametric or WAVE. KAL lets users add non-geometric rules, such as cost, legislation or design-for-manufacturability/assembly (DFM/A) rules to one or more objects of the parametric CAD model.
The two (parametrics+KAL) provides a very rich integrated 3D modeling environment for your products. It ensures consistency and associativity with each upstream operations (like engineering concepts or DTC requirements) that users may have performed already or downstream operation (like DFMA) that users may intend to perform later.
Knowledge Solutions provides all sorts of KA techniques for knowledge capture, knowledge-based modeling, Parametric Assemblies, Knowledge-based Drafting/Visualizations, knowledge processing, human-computer interactions, Data / Knowledge Communication, understanding relations, learning and adaptation, hyper concepts (hypertext, hypermedia, hyper language, multimedia, etc.), and knowledge visualization. Knowledge solution has also developed a methodology, comprising an Web-based knowledge base, an integrated workflow system (IWS) and a Project Knowledge Manager (PKM) as the administrator, which can allow project knowledge to be captured ‘live’ from ongoing projects.
Contact us today, and find out if live capture methodology can work for you. We give free consultations to determine the feasibility of all Knowledge-acquisition inquiries.
KA allows companies to capture and deploy all sorts of product and process knowledge that you may consider important for a product or its family. By virtue of its object-oriented class definitions and other "rules chaining techniques," KA methods know the inherent tree structures and rule dependencies. If a change in some design are demanded by a design engineer or the associated program, forward or backward chaining logic automatically re-executes only the portion of the design, which are impacted (or are dependent upon that change), thus, saving a lot of time in unnecessary iterations.
Language Encoding
In the context of knowledge acquisition, language encoding describes a scripting capability that enables the encoding and evaluation of general-purpose rules to any CAD object (2D or 3D). These rules are useful for applying non-geometric constraints (such as material attributes, cost factors or legislative criteria) to a 3D model of a part or a product. Users can employ similar configuration rules to determine a variation of the initial product shape into new topology, new or modified 3D geometry (such as new points, lines, arcs, surfaces or new solids) and their attributes. Such capabilities provide CAD users or PLM customers with the ability to capture their own corporate knowledge and use it to automate design, engineering and manufacturing processes/ functions of their product or its family.
Language-based KA techniques are emerging as popular capturing techniques to mine the product and process knowledge and reuse it later to massively reduce design/ development time and cost, while simultaneously improving the cost, performance, and quality of the end product.
Most companies employ Language based KA methods/techniques and tools for modeling parts and capturing knowledge into parameters, relations, and rules. Today, using such language –based KA capability (like DS/KnowlegeWare and NX/KnowledgeFusion), PLM customers are making the assignment, management and utilization of abstract rules to an object. They are encoding both geometric and non-geometric constraints to their 3D models. This type of encoding methodology is often referred as Generative Modeling.
Parametric Encoding
A misunderstanding that often arises with language encoding is that it is only an alternative to parametrics. This can sometimes be propagated by some computer-aided design (CAD) vendors, who may not have KA language (KAL) tools or perhaps never understood what power KAL tools brings to the users when it is combined with other CAD tools. The truth is that KAL does not remove the need for parametrics or WAVE (What if Analysis and Value Engineering). Parametrics and WAVE for CAD modelling are good tools for capturing 3D geometry and associated details like lines and surfaces.
KAL capturing tools do more than parametric or WAVE. KAL lets users add non-geometric rules, such as cost, legislation or design-for-manufacturability/assembly (DFM/A) rules to one or more objects of the parametric CAD model.
The two (parametrics+KAL) provides a very rich integrated 3D modeling environment for your products. It ensures consistency and associativity with each upstream operations (like engineering concepts or DTC requirements) that users may have performed already or downstream operation (like DFMA) that users may intend to perform later.
Knowledge Solutions provides all sorts of KA techniques for knowledge capture, knowledge-based modeling, Parametric Assemblies, Knowledge-based Drafting/Visualizations, knowledge processing, human-computer interactions, Data / Knowledge Communication, understanding relations, learning and adaptation, hyper concepts (hypertext, hypermedia, hyper language, multimedia, etc.), and knowledge visualization. Knowledge solution has also developed a methodology, comprising an Web-based knowledge base, an integrated workflow system (IWS) and a Project Knowledge Manager (PKM) as the administrator, which can allow project knowledge to be captured ‘live’ from ongoing projects.
Contact us today, and find out if live capture methodology can work for you. We give free consultations to determine the feasibility of all Knowledge-acquisition inquiries.
