Knowledge Based Engineering

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Knowledge Based Product and Process Reuse
IT concepts such as data warehousing and data mining validate the fact that more information is available to a user today than ever. Finding the right piece of information, if it exists at all, can be a monumental task.

Add information deluge to the fact that employee attrition may result in a company's intellectual properties loss.

VEMS provides a KBE engine that, when information is assigned anywhere from a component to a system, that information or rule will be propagated through the enterprise.

Consider the use case where a manufacturing plant's capabilities for a certain bend radius and clocking angle of a wire bundle requires a length addition to 24mm to the original design intent. The prototype issue may not be expensive to the company from the material point of view, but lessons are re-learned, caught by the shop floor further discrediting Engineering, or time is simply lost in the product life cycle.