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A Product Life-Cycle Oriented Approach for Knowledge-Based Product Configuration Systems

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Faced with increasing complexity in the global economy, a timely and accurate operation of the market demands an accelerated harmonization of customer and manufacturer perspective in the quotation phase through product configuration systems. An approach for knowledge-based product configuration through the integration of experience and knowledge from the product use phase is presented below. The goal of this approach is to enable a faster and software-controlled harmonization of the different customer’s and the manufacturer’s points of view during the pre-contract phase. Therefore a case-based reasoning method was developed to be integrated in a rule-based product configuration system. It allows a faster ascertainment of customer needs and thereby provides accurate and complete configuration of the provided products.

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This work has been supported by the integrated research project DIALOG in the topic “Management and Virtualization of Product Development” funded by the German government (BMBF).

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Schubert, V., Wicaksono, H., Rogalski, S. (2011). A Product Life-Cycle Oriented Approach for Knowledge-Based Product Configuration Systems. In: Bernard, A. (eds) Global Product Development. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15973-2_35

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