otive Innovation geared towards encouraging and recognizing the creation and development of new innovative products,technologies and ideas aimed at changing the face of the UK automotive industry.
This concept note has been prepared for the automobile manufacturing companies stressing the importance of employing Knowledge Based Engineering systems with the aim of improving their fields of developmental methodologies through a shorter developmental time thus improving the quality of their systems(ARMSTRONG,
2001:24).
The concept of Knowledge Based Engineering(KBE) is without doubt very broad.This is because in product development KBE becomes an important tool with the important function of capturing knowledge and enabling for its reuse.For example,a spreadsheet enables the recycling of knowledge by having the ability to effectively implement equations and/or rules.It is for this reason that this concept note lays emphasis on those tools of Knowledge Based Engineering that function as tools where knowledge is stored in different classes as objects such as Java,C++ and especially takes note of fact that in terms of product prototyping, KBE tools carry out an important role in congruence with geometry engine to effectively put into action the automatic generation of product concept.KBE functions to automate routine and time consuming tasks which thereby accord employees of companies more time to invest in new innovations and adequately find solutions.However,knowledge based system emanating from artificial intelligence(AI) captures expert knowledge and more often than not also generate creative solutions, for which it sometimes referred to as ‘expert system’.This paper notes that in the development of KBE systems,numerous methods exists but lays particular emphasis on MOKA as a suitable example that could be adopted by SMMT (The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders)