An Object-Oriented Modeling Approach to Process Knowledge Management

Process planning, compared to product design and product manufacturing, is regarded by the current research community as a very complex task. Process knowledge management is a more complicated task in process planning system. This paper presents a very useful process knowledge management module based on object-oriented modeling method through analyzing of the numerous manufacturing enterprisespsila process characteristics. To use class to describe the structure of process information entity, use instance to describe typical process information, use method of class to manage, use rules to describe process decision knowledge, a dynamic knowledge database can be automatically created. For the maintenance of process knowledge, this paper also has a detailed description.