A Study on Knowledge Transfer System in Shipbuilding

- Knowledge Acquisition Support System -

Abstract

It's getting more important to transfer knowledge from elder experts to young engineers especially in shipbuilding industry in Japan. We developed knowledge transfer system based on UT-ESS (University of Tokyo Educational Software for Shipbuilding) and proposed a method to acquire knowledge of elder experts using the developed system. The system describes design process as workflows and design documents are associated with tasks in workflows. The association between design process and design documents is described by metadata based on semantic web technology. The proposed method is evaluated through a case study of knowledge acquisition in basic design department in four shipbuilding companies.