Sketches assist product designers during the creative stages of design and help them to develop inventions.
GQFD can assist product developers in identifying important engineering characteristics and can provide suggestions for possible improvements in engineering characteristics.
From these models, design support information has been generated to assist product designers in decision making for the new Balinese product design.
The objectives of KaViDo are to record and document development processes, to manage the competences of distributed experts, to exchange user experiences and to assist product development.
In this paper, we propose a framework of an active knowledge service based on collaborative intent capture to assist product conceptual design.
This paper presents a product concept generation and selection (PCGS) approach, which was proposed to assist product designers in generating and selecting design alternatives during the product conceptualization stage.
In Rough Sets Theory Analysis Module, Rough Sets Theory (RST) is used to calculate configuration rules in incomplete configuration information system to assist product designers in mapping performance space to configuration space.
Furthermore, information technology, namely computer-aided design (CAD) tools, should be refined to assist product designers in designing for effective circularity and end-of-waste and limiting hibernation of resources in the use phase.
A knowledge-based expert system at the discretion of casting product designers can be employed as a real-time expert advisor to assist product designers to achieve the correct casting design and select the most appropriate casting process for a given component.
