Book description
Knowledge-based Configuration incorporates knowledge representation formalisms to capture complex product models and reasoning methods to provide intelligent interactive behavior with the user. This book represents the first time that corporate and academic worlds collaborate integrating research and commercial benefits of knowledge-based configuration. Foundational interdisciplinary material is provided for composing models from increasingly complex products and services. Case studies, the latest research, and graphical knowledge representations that increase understanding of knowledge-based configuration provide a toolkit to continue to push the boundaries of what configurators can do and how they enable companies and customers to thrive.
- Includes detailed discussion of state-of-the art configuration knowledge engineering approaches such as automated testing and debugging, redundancy detection, and conflict management
- Provides an overview of the application of knowledge-based configuration technologies in the form of real-world case studies from SAP, Siemens, Kapsch, and more
- Explores the commercial benefits of knowledge-based configuration technologies to business sectors from services to industrial equipment
- Uses concepts that are based on an example personal computer configuration knowledge base that is represented in an UML-based graphical language
Table of contents
- Cover image
- Title page
- Copyright
- Acknowledgments
- About the Editors
- List of Contributors
- Foreword
- Part 1: Introduction
- Part 2: Basics
- Part 3: Advanced Topics
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Part 4: Case Studies
- Chapter 16. SIEMENS: Configuration and Reconfiguration in Industry
- Chapter 17. Tacton: Use of Tacton Configurator at FLSmidth
- Chapter 18. encoway: From ERP-Based to Sales-Oriented Configuration
- Chapter 19. Kapsch: Reconfiguration of Mobile Phone Networks
- Chapter 20. Configuring and Generating Technical Documents
- Chapter 21. Configuring Services and Processes
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Part 5: Configuration Environments
- Chapter 22. S’UPREME
- Chapter 23. encoway
- Chapter 24. KONWERK
- Chapter 25. WeeVis
- Chapter 26. VariSales
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Chapter 27. Product Configuration in SAP: A Retrospective
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 27.1 Introduction
- 27.2 Expert Systems (XPS)
- 27.3 Declarative Knowledge Representation and Constraints in XPS in the 1980s
- 27.4 The Manufacture of Variants: A Configuration Problem
- 27.5 A Productively Used XPS: The SAP (OS/2) Configurator
- 27.6 Making It Mainstream: The SAP Variant Configurator (SAP VC)
- 27.7 The SAP IPC (Internet Pricing and Configuration)
- 27.8 Conclusion
- References
- Part 6: Appendix
- Author Index
- Subject Index
Product information
- Title: Knowledge-Based Configuration
- Author(s):
- Release date: April 2014
- Publisher(s): Morgan Kaufmann
- ISBN: 9780124158696
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