Knowledge about the relations between process steps or dependencies of materials, technologies, designs, tools and machines
is mostly stored in the product developers mind. The same effect takes place when one talks about product related knowledge
and the referring technological requirements It is lost if the person leaves the company. The following paper describes a
knowledge management approach for a product independent description of Micro System processes and presents a software prototype
for decision support in early product development phases.
Keywords process knowledge management - design for X - decision support systems