Abstract
The environment where Japanese industry has been paid with respect is changing tremendously due to the globalization of economics, where Asia countries are undergoing economical and technical development as well as advancing in Information Technology. With acceleration of manufacturing bases relocating abroad, industrial hollowing out is happening; hence effort to transfer the technology and the design knowledge of machine design in a company is becoming an important subject. For example, in the design of casting product, a designer who is lack of casting knowledge may not be able to produce a good design. In order to obtain a good design, it is necessary to equip the designer with a support system related to easting process or so called, knowledge transfer system. This paper proposes a machine design knowledge transfer system; where machine design, which requires added values such as advanced technology, high quality, short delivery time, is taken as an example and both its explicit and tacit knowledge are cooperated by using Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language.
