Ergonomic design knowledge base in web-enabled quick response system

Abstract

Human factor engineering technologies can benefit the design of products to be more comfortable and user-friendly, however, this professional knowledge is hard to understand and apply it by general customers. Converting ergonomic design knowledge in the web-enabled quick response system may be solved the bottleneck of the knowledge gap in between the end-users and companies. The main contribution of this paper addresses to establish a web-enabled quick response system with knowledge base, containing ergonomic design knowledge specific for furniture design. It is used as a case study in order to show how ergonomic design knowledge built with this system for different kinds of people to design their own furniture with special functions by applied ergonomic design knowledge base. This system can help the customers' tacit idea transferring to the engineering drawings as explicit knowledge. The knowledge-based system will be enlarged through customers' feedback, researches, and guidelines. The Integrated Definition (IDEF) Modeling Techniques of this system was analyzed and the prototype of this system was design.