A NOVEL APPROACHES TOWARDS DESIGN INFORMATION MANAGEMENT WITHIN AIRBUS
Andrew J. Lowe, Chris A. McMahon, S J Culley, P L Coleman, M. Dotter · 2003
The creation, use and exchange of informal information are daily concerns in the aeronautical design world. This paper describes the combined application of two novel information management systems that provide a very promising answer to these concerns. The IDEA system provides automatic classification and the novel Adaptive Concept Match (ACM) approach for accessing documents from electronic repositories. The Engineering Book of Knowledge (EBoK) application provides user-friendly document management and workflow capabilities to assist in the transfer of engineering knowledge, represented as lessons learned and company best practice. The integration of IDEA within EBoK is one part of the wider set of solutions being developed to answer knowledge management concerns at Airbus.