1. WIDE IST-2001-34417 IST–2001–34417 WIDE WIDE Semantic Web-based Information Management and Knowledge Sharing for Innovative Product Design and Engineering

2. WIDE IST-2001-34417 IST–2001–34417 WIDE Motivation  Sustaining innovative product design  Bridging the Communication gap between Design and Engineering  Optimize product development process  Enlarge potential for creativity and innovative product development  Support SMEs to be competetive

3. WIDE IST-2001-34417 IST–2001–34417 WIDE Key Objectives  Development of a Semantic Web based information and knowledge management system  Evaluation and use of Semantic Web technologies and standards  Usage of Semantic Web technologies to support knowledge sharing for designers and engineers  Application of ontologies to support the usage of domain-specific languages  Identify further R&D needs

4. WIDE IST-2001-34417 IST–2001–34417 WIDE Innovation  Knowledge sharing without forcing the participants „to speak a common language“  Use of a process ontology  Use of an existing theory of design process  Bringing Semantic Web technologies to a specific application area (here: industrial design and engineering)

5. WIDE IST-2001-34417 IST–2001–34417 WIDE System Overview

6. WIDE IST-2001-34417 IST–2001–34417 WIDE User Scenarios  1. Scenario: Italdesign Designer is requesting „something aggressive, powerful from the sixties“ System is matching domain-specific languages  2. Scenario: Schenck Engineers dealing with testing data Retrieval for oil System includes data from other test runs and enlarges the query space

7. WIDE IST-2001-34417 IST–2001–34417 WIDE Consortium  Coordinator: Dr. André Stork Fraunhofer-Institut für Graphische Datenverarbeitung Fraunhoferstr. 5 Contact: andre.stork@igd.fhg.deandre.stork@igd.fhg.de 64283 Germany Tel.: 0049 6151 155 220  Fraunhofer-IGD, Germany: Coordinator, Content Repository Level Components  VICOMTech, Spain: Meta Level Development  Centro Computacao Grafica, Portugal: Navigation Structures, User Interface, Exploitation, Dissemination  CEFRIEL, Italy: Agent Technology  Italdesign, Italy: Assessment, Evaluation, User Scenario, Content  Schenck, Germany: User Scenario, Content