Abstract
The paper’s focus is on the analysis of the feasibility of using social tagging as a tool for knowledge collecting and retrieval, in the context of the Product Development Process. This process is a social activity which involves groups of individuals that share a common goal: “to design a product”. Traditional Knowledge Base Systems are not very well suited to capture the tacit knowledge that embeds this process. Social tagging is proposed in this paper as the mechanism to externalize the tacit knowledge about the best CAD modeling strategies between the design team members. This knowledge is especially relevant for the management of “Engineering Change Orders” because this process is very related to the modeling methodology used to create the 3D CAD models, that have to be adapted to accomplish a specific design modification. In order to analyze the feasibility of this approach, an experimental study has been conducted to understand the tagging process in this context and the benefit of using this information in the modification procedure of 3D CAD models. Preliminary experimental results show that tagging represents a feasible approach to support knowledge collecting about best CAD modeling practices.
Keywords
Social tagging process; Tacit knowledge; Product development process; Engineering change order; Folksonomy
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21606/eksig2011.107
Citation
Alducin, G.,and Contero, M.(2011) Social Tagging as a Collecting Knowledge Strategy in the Engineering Design Change Process, in Niedderer, K., Mey, K., Roworth-Stokes, S. (eds.), EKSIG 2011: Skin Deep - Experiential Knowledge & Multi-sensory Communication, 23–24 June 2011, Farnham, United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.21606/eksig2011.107
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Social Tagging as a Collecting Knowledge Strategy in the Engineering Design Change Process
The paper’s focus is on the analysis of the feasibility of using social tagging as a tool for knowledge collecting and retrieval, in the context of the Product Development Process. This process is a social activity which involves groups of individuals that share a common goal: “to design a product”. Traditional Knowledge Base Systems are not very well suited to capture the tacit knowledge that embeds this process. Social tagging is proposed in this paper as the mechanism to externalize the tacit knowledge about the best CAD modeling strategies between the design team members. This knowledge is especially relevant for the management of “Engineering Change Orders” because this process is very related to the modeling methodology used to create the 3D CAD models, that have to be adapted to accomplish a specific design modification. In order to analyze the feasibility of this approach, an experimental study has been conducted to understand the tagging process in this context and the benefit of using this information in the modification procedure of 3D CAD models. Preliminary experimental results show that tagging represents a feasible approach to support knowledge collecting about best CAD modeling practices.