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Enhancing design representations of information and knowledge of complex and long-living assets by applying system modelling techniques

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 May 2024

Fabian Niklas Laukotka ,
Markus Christian Berschik  and
Dieter Krause
Fabian Niklas Laukotka*
Affiliation:
Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
Markus Christian Berschik
Affiliation:
Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
Dieter Krause
Affiliation:
Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
*
fabian.laukotka@tuhh.de

Abstract

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Managing general domain knowledge and asset-specific information in the form of digital representations is especially important and challenging when focusing on long-living and complex assets. Implicit knowledge and existing structures need to be captured and digitalised, ideally without introducing unnecessary complexity through unfamiliar wording or new structures. To achieve this, a methodical approach that utilises ontologies as well as system modelling techniques and focuses on early-stage model instantiation is presented and applied to the cabin retrofit of aircraft

Keywords

design representationknowledge representationssystem modellingaircraft cabinsmeta-model

Information

Type
Design Information and Knowledge
Information
Proceedings of the Design Society , Volume 4: DESIGN 2024 , May 2024 , pp. 403 - 412
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