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Today, product models can be built manually or by instantiating objects from a standards library. Database evolution schemas have been defined to maintain data integrity as the product model changes throughout design and construction. Based on a project case example, this paper defines mechanisms that transform a design-centric decomposition of a product model into a production-centric decomposition. The three mechanisms are (1) the introduction of temporary structures, (2) the refinement of components, and (3) the aggregation of components. These mechanisms complement the manual and standards approaches to product modeling. They are defined at the user level and use abstracted knowledge about components and activities to transform a product model as required by a particular set of engineering tasks. The challenge in defining and operational izing the transformation mechanisms lies in abstracting the knowledge that determines when to use what mechanism and in formalizing the knowledge that creates and inserts new product model objects at the appropriate place in the product model hierarchy.
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Fischer, M., Aalamin, F., Akbas, R. (1998). Formalizing product model transformations: Case examples and applications. In: Smith, I. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Structural Engineering. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1454. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0030447
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