Method of Building Product Design Knowledge Base

In order to effectively manage various kinds of knowledge used for the product collaborative design of Mass Customization (MC), it is necessary to build product design knowledge base (PDKB). The content of design knowledge includes the new product and customization design knowledge, principles and standards, methods and cases on configuration and variant design. Knowledge Representation Model (KRM) is built with object modeling technique. In order to easily realize knowledge management, the object model is mapped to the Relation Database, and the PDKB is organized according to the Relation Database!technique. After the Knowledge Base engine is constructed on J2EE platform, the intelligent knowledge searching is realized by case-based reasoning and rule-based reasoning. All these are to effectively accelerate the development of product agile customization design.