Reusing knowledge based on Ontology and Organizational Model

The work presented in this paper is related to knowledge management during the design process of mechanical products. More exactly, we are concentrating on the knowledge reuse process. We propose a knowledge reuse system (KRS) based on two approaches. Namely, an organizational approach and a modeling user approach. Both are ontology-based models. Our system takes into account, the actors’ roles (by the organizational approach), their preferences (by the model user approach), and their collaboration throughout the product design process in order to help designers to get knowledge that is considered the most relevant in all the phases of the product design process.