TracED: A Computational Environment for Capturing and Tracing Engineering Design Processes

SILVIO GONNET; MARÍA LUCIANA ROLDÁN; HORACIO LEONE; GABRIELA HENNING

Cambridge

Congreso; 1st International Conference on Modelling and Management of Engineering Processes (MMEP 2010); 2010

Special Interest Group of the Design Society - Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK

The design of artefacts in many engineering disciplines involves creative and unstructured activities, without having a predefined workflow. To assist engineers, a variety of computer-support environments has been developed. However, most tools often leave aside the documentation of the associated rationale, decisions and applied operations. Thus, this design knowledge remains in the minds of experienced designers, is lost over time, and cannot be reused. To overcome these flaws, this contribution presents TracED, an environment allowing the capture and Tracing of Engineering Design processes.