WIDE IST IST–2001–34417 WIDE WIDE Semantic Web-based Information Management and Knowledge Sharing for Innovative Product Design and Engineering

WIDE IST IST–2001–34417 WIDE Motivation  Sustaining innovative product design  Bridging the Communication gap between Design and Engineering  Optimize product development process  Enlarge potential for creativity and innovative product development  Support SMEs to be competetive

WIDE IST IST–2001–34417 WIDE Key Objectives  Development of a Semantic Web based information and knowledge management system  Evaluation and use of Semantic Web technologies and standards  Usage of Semantic Web technologies to support knowledge sharing for designers and engineers  Application of ontologies to support the usage of domain-specific languages  Identify further R&D needs

WIDE IST IST–2001–34417 WIDE Innovation  Knowledge sharing without forcing the participants „to speak a common language“  Use of a process ontology  Use of an existing theory of design process  Bringing Semantic Web technologies to a specific application area (here: industrial design and engineering)

WIDE IST IST–2001–34417 WIDE System Overview

WIDE IST IST–2001–34417 WIDE User Scenarios  1. Scenario: Italdesign Designer is requesting „something aggressive, powerful from the sixties“ System is matching domain-specific languages  2. Scenario: Schenck Engineers dealing with testing data Retrieval for oil System includes data from other test runs and enlarges the query space

WIDE IST IST–2001–34417 WIDE Consortium  Coordinator: Dr. André Stork Fraunhofer-Institut für Graphische Datenverarbeitung Fraunhoferstr. 5 Contact: Germany Tel.:  Fraunhofer-IGD, Germany: Coordinator, Content Repository Level Components  VICOMTech, Spain: Meta Level Development  Centro Computacao Grafica, Portugal: Navigation Structures, User Interface, Exploitation, Dissemination  CEFRIEL, Italy: Agent Technology  Italdesign, Italy: Assessment, Evaluation, User Scenario, Content  Schenck, Germany: User Scenario, Content