Intended learning outcomes: Produce an overview on expert systems and knowledge-based systems. Explain the implementation of production rules. Present a data model for parameterized representation of a product family.
Chapter 7 covered the various techniques for planning & controlling product concepts such as product families and products produced to customer specification. Variants in bills of material and routing sheets were introduced in Section 7.3 as the production rules of an expert system for handling product families with many variants. This section explains the extensions arising from this approach, that is, the associated tools and objects.
Course section 17.3: Subsections and their intended learning outcomes
17.3 Extensions Arising from the Variant-Oriented Concept
Intended learning outcomes: Produce an overview on expert systems and knowledge-based systems. Explain the implementation of production rules. Present a data model for parameterized representation of a product family.
17.3.1 Expert Systems and Knowledge-Based Systems
Intended learning outcomes: Explain the organization of an expert system (or knowledge-based information system). Describe a production rule.
17.3.2 Implementation of Production Rules in a Knowledge-Based System
Intended learning outcomes: Differentiate between the representation of the bill of material or routing sheet for a product with options and the standard version without variants. Explain the extended primary key for a bill of material with options.
17.3.3 A Data Model for Parameterized Representation of a Product Family (*)
Intended learning outcomes: Produce an overview on parameter and parameter class. Differentiate between primary and secondary parameters. Explain plausibility or compatibility test. Identify various types of formulas.
Course 17: Sections and their intended learning outcomes
Course 17 – Representation and System Management of Logistic Objects
Intended learning outcomes: Describe order data in sales, distribution, production, and procurement. Explain in detail master data for products and processes. Disclose extensions arising from the variant-oriented and the processor-oriented concepts. Produce an overview on the management of product and engineering data.
17.1 Order Data in Sales, Distribution, Production, and Procurement
Intended learning outcomes: Present the data structure of customers and suppliers. Describe the general data structure of orders in sales and distribution, production, and procurement. Disclose the data structure of the order and partial order header as well as the order position.
17.2 The Master Data for Products and Processes
Intended learning outcomes: Describe master data of products, components, and operations. Explain the data structure of item master, bill of material, and where-used list. Disclose the data structure of work center master data, the work center hierarchy, as well as for operation, routing sheet, production equipment, bill of production equipment, and bill of tools.
17.3 Extensions Arising from the Variant-Oriented Concept
Intended learning outcomes: Produce an overview on expert systems and knowledge-based systems. Explain the implementation of production rules. Present a data model for parameterized representation of a product family.
17.4 Extensions Arising from the Processor-Oriented Concept
Intended learning outcomes: Explain objects such as process, technology, and the processor-oriented production structure. Describe objects for lot control.
17.5 The Management of Product Data and Product Life Cycle Data
Intended learning outcomes: Produce an overview on product life cycle management and engineering data management (EDM). Explain the engineering database as part of an IT system. Describe the data and functional model for general EDM tasks. Present object classes and functions for release and engineering change control.
17.6 Summary
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17.7 Keywords
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17.8 Scenarios and Exercises
Intended learning outcomes: Elaborate different forms of representing bills of material and where-used lists. Identify basic master data objects.
17.9 References
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