Knowledge service method for supporting product intellectualized design

To solve the problems of computation and reasoning decision in the product intellectualized design and achieve a combination of both, a knowledge service method for supporting product intellectualized design is proposed, which includes the development of knowledge service strategy and the construction of knowledge environment. The design knowledge is divided into four types, i.e. business domain, empirical rule, instance scenario and iteration calculation, by analyzing the features of design knowledge and the relationship between it and design process. A appropriate service strategy is developed for the different types of knowledge, and the formal descriptions of them are given based on knowledge and component templates. An ontology-based semantic modeling process of design knowledge is presented. On this basis, through evaluation and modification of scheme, the design knowledge is integrated into the instance-based reasoning activities, and the automated computation is achieved by tools integration and procedure packaging. A knowledge-based intelligent design system is developed. The proposed method is demonstrated by taking a gun barrel for example. The result shows that the method is effective.