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).