Approach to knowledge service platform for modern design based on knowledge flow theory

The current situation and problems of knowledge service and its supporting platform are discussed. In order to make product more competitive, a new framework of the knowledge service platform for modern design under distributed resource environment from a perspective of whole lifecycle of the products is proposed by the application of knowledge flow theory and knowledge service in this paper. This platform is a middleware platform based on SOA, in which TRIZ, AD and other design theories and methods are integrated and functional component sets are adopted, meanwhile the integration of network resources by cooperating with other websites to support product design is included. The key technology to realizing function of platform and their implementations are discussed, the network resources integration strategy under distributed resource environment is proposed, the operating mechanism of various coupling knowledge flows in the platform was studied, and the topological relations among those knowledge flows are described. The result shows that this platform can provide overall technical supports for design knowledge and dynamic design process and to form a powerful product design support environment.