Research on the knowledge flow evolving model for mechanical product innovation design

Research on the knowledge flow evolving model for mechanical product innovation design

Shaohui Su1, Pengfei Li1, Zhangming Peng1, Fanchao Wu1, Chang Chen1, Jiangang Wang2 

1School of mechanical engineering, Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, 310018, China

2China New Building Materials Design and Research Institute, Hangzhou, 310012, China

The innovation and competitiveness of product require the fulfilment of customers demand. The key is to acquire knowledge of customer needs. In this article, a design knowledge flow cognitive model was built on the traditional FES model, using the acquirement of product demand for a start. It fuses the user’s demand, function, effect, structure, constraint and recycling of product for product innovation. According to the model, the level of knowledge classification and description methods was studied and an object-oriented description method of knowledge was proposed. The relation between knowledge and knowledge flow was analysed and so were the vertical relation and horizontal relation between each knowledge point. The evolution process of knowledge was researched based product family Take example for Curve sawing products to validate the proposed model in this article.