Knowledge management support for conceptual product design

The initial stage of the conceptual product design process is a highly creative and intensive knowledge-exploration intensive process. Sources of information utilized by design teams span local databases to internet collections and online magazines. Finding the relevant information is a challenge for a single product design team as the amount of information available continues to increase. In this demonstration we present the semantic tool which assist product designers with various knowledge management tasks during information discovery towards the formulation of new product concept.