Yuh-Min Chen

TL;DR: A systematic approach, from domain investigation and functional requirement analysis, through system design and modelling to implementation of an engineering information system that makes use of various modelling techniques will enable the practice of allied concurrent engineering and consequently help increase product development capability and quality, reduce development cycle time and cost, and hence increase product marketability.

TL;DR: In developing the proposed approach, a CPD-based engineering knowledge management methodology is first proposed under the concepts of knowledge management and collaboration, which includes a knowledge management-oriented engineering management work model, a distributed engineeringknowledge management framework, and rules and methods for managing engineering knowledge.

TL;DR: The trust evaluation method for the proposed VPT model enables secure resource sharing across team and enterprise boundaries, facilitates collaboration, and enhances information transparency among team members.

TL;DR: A novel mechanism for integrating ontology-based product lifecycle knowledge to effectively integrate the heterogeneous product knowledge distributed among different enterprises during a product's lifecycle, thereby facilitating sharing of this product knowledge is developed.

TL;DR: In this article, a cost model is developed, which depicts the relationships between cost factors and product development activities, as well as their relationships with product geometry. And according to the product life cycle activities and the cost model, a design for cost effectiveness process is proposed.