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Product design reuse with parts libraries and an engineering semantic web for small- and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises

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The design reuse of products is vital for mass customization. In small- and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises (SMMEs), employing design reuse is a challenging issue because of the limited level and scale of these enterprises. Previous studies have not considered this issue and have attempted to rebuild a complete novel system. In this study, we propose a design reuse approach based on an engineering semantic web (ESW) and implement a design reuse system. This system does not rebuild the current parts library in SMMEs. In our approach, we construct an ESW and a mapping relation to introduce engineering semantic information into the existing parts library. In addition, we employ ant colony optimization (ACO) for the retrieval of design information. A design reuse prototype system is implemented for solving the problem of design reuse in SMMEs.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, People’s Republic of China

    Bo Jin

  2. School of Mechanical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, People’s Republic of China

    Hong-Fei Teng

  3. Precision and Non-Traditional Machining, Key Laboratory for Ministry of Education, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, 116024, People’s Republic of China

    Yi-Shou Wang & Fu-Zheng Qu

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Jin, B., Teng, HF., Wang, YS. et al. Product design reuse with parts libraries and an engineering semantic web for small- and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 38, 1075–1084 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-007-1157-y

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