Ontological Approach for the Conceptual Development of Products

In order to improve the structuring process of a product a company often refer to adopt different solutions for correlating the structure of the newly product and its components with other complementary factors. In essence, these factors target the market, suppliers, solutions of manufacturing, terms for delivery, price, quality, etc. All these factors must be taken into considerations in order to make an optimal decision during the conceptual or detailed design process. These factors are collected preliminary and introduced into the proposed ontology. Despite other approaches, the method proposed into this paper uses also some limitations to determine the right decision-making act even for unqualified people and some other knowledge's incorporated into the ontology.