Meeting the requirements for supporting engineering design communication - Partbook
Year: 2013
Editor: Udo Lindemann, Srinivasan V, Yong Se Kim, Sang Won Lee, John Clarkson, Gaetano Cascini
Author: Gopsill, James Anthony; McAlpine, Hamish Charles; Hicks, Ben James
Series: ICED
Institution: 1: University of Bath, United Kingdom; 2: University of Bristol, United Kingdom
Page(s): 269-280
ISBN: 978-1-904670-49-0
ISSN: 2220-4334
Abstract
The Engineering Design Environment is evolving in many ways. Considerable amounts of data, information and knowledge are 'building up' within engineering companies and engineers are becoming involved in ever-more distributed collaboration activities to tackle complex multi-disciplinary challenges in the design of new products requiring the need to share knowledge. These changes are placing further challenges on Engineering Design Communication (EDC, a fundamental knowledge sharing activity) as the current methods of communication were never specifically designed to support such technical and highly-contextual communication. Much research has been performed on understanding EDC, thus enabling a list of requirements to support EDC to be generated. Therefore, this paper proposes a prescriptive tool, (PartBook) which instantiates these requirements and looks at the next steps being taken to evaluate the tool in meeting the requirements.
Keywords: Communication, knowledge management, human behaviour in design, design informatics, partbook