From Computer-Aided Drafting to Knowledge Intensive Design
Résumé
The presentation will brief overview of the domain, also reviewing the history of CSCWD and ISMICK for which we are gathered at Lausanne. CSCWD started at a time when people were more interested in tools than in the design process itself, although one already talked of Knowledge Intensive Design. At the same epoch ISMICK was started one of the goal being of using knowledge throughout the lifecycle of complex new products. Today, both approaches converge and it is difficult to talk about design without taking into account the product lifecycle and the associated knowledge. After reviewing briefly the changes that occured in the two domains during the last twenty years, I will describe a project that aims at combining both approaches for the phase of conceptual preliminary design. It certainly needs much more research to become an industrial reality.