Title: Towards Redesign of Manufacturing Processes based on Functional Understanding,
Authors: Yoshinobu Kitamura, Toshio Ueda, Masayoshi Fuse, Riichiro Mizoguchi
Reference: Poster Proceedings of Artificial Intelligence in Design '98, pp.14, 1998.

Abstract: This research aims at developing a redesign support system for manufacturing processes. The redesign task requires identifying not only behavior of each process-unit but also relations among them such as "to prevent" and "to allow", because they represent justifications of the existence of each process-unit. In this article, we propose a framework of redesign including functional understanding task to identify functional structure of a target artifact before modification.

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