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Abstract

Small Agricultural machinery (SAM) is applied widely in agriculture, forestry and stockbreeding. We focus the reconfiguration and Interoperability of the complex process of SAM product development, and propose a design architecture employing axiomatic design method and ontology information representation. In the proposed design process, product function decomposing and recomposing according to independent axiom of axiomatic design, all information of all design phases is expressed in ontology information model with XML language so that can be communicated among all engineers. A case study conducted in Small Agriculture Machinery (SAM) design helps to illustrate the proposed approach, it shows the proposed methods are feasible and reliable, lays a foundation of SAM product reconfigurable design system.

Key words  Small agricultural machinery - Axiomatic design - Ontology - Gearbox

This project is supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant 50375146), National Basic Research Program of China (Grant 2004CCA05800), The Doctoral Program Foundation of Ministry of Education of China (Grant 20040337002), the department of international Science&Technology cooperation of China (Grant 2005DFA70380), Zhejiang Provincial department of international Science&Technology cooperation of China (Grant 2005C14005) and Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Z503054).

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