The role of ontologies in creating and maintaining corporate knowledge: A case study from the aero industry

摘要: The Designers' Workbench is a system, developed to support designers in large organizations, such as Rolls-Royce, ensure that the design consistent with specification for particular well company's rule book(s). evolving described against jet engine ontology. Design rules are expressed constraints over domain To capture constraint information, expert (design engineer) has work knowledge engineer identify constraints, and it then task of encode these into Workbench's base. This an error prone time consuming task. It highly desirable relieve this task, so we have tool, ConEditor+ enables experts themselves maintain constraints. tool allows user combine selected entities from ontology keywords operators language form expression. In order appropriately apply, reuse believe important understand assumptions context which each applicable; refer “application conditions”. We hypothesise explicit representation together corresponding application conditions appropriate could be used by system maintenance paper, focus on role plays supporting engineering design.