International Knowledge Aware Association

The cornerstone of Knowledge Aware is a process and technology to dynamically and precisely provision retained know-how into engineering processes where it provides critical engineering decision support and continuous closed loop learning. In the most simplified terms, the Knowledge Aware process has the following features: 

• Technical workers have Retained Know-how provisioned into their work-stream. These solution sets are based on the Retained Know-how that has been collected automatically and specifically for the assigned task and is presented to the workers in a form optimized to this task. The optimized form can range from a simple checklist to dynamic rule evaluations in a digital environment. For example, a solution delivered to technical staff working in CAD would be expressed with CAD features and would inform/constrain the CAD model. Similarly, a solution set delivered into a Bill of Material (BOM) structure would communicate with BOM specifications to constrain and evaluate the structure. Importantly Knowledge Aware features a common deployment infrastructure, called Assessment Control, for all solution sets, regardless of complexity. 
• The delivered Assessment Control maintains a connection to Technical Memory to introduce changed and new Retained Know-how to the engineering context (continuous provisioning). 
• The Assessment Control’s constituent Retained Know-how is evaluated in context, and the results of the evaluation are fed back into the Knowledge System. 
• Users of the Knowledge System are free to traverse from the Retained Know-how to any/all deployments of the Retained Know-how within the Assessment Control and, conversely, from any deployment of the Retained Know-how to its Gold Source packet. The Knowledge Aware process is made possible through four important new technology bundles: 
  • Retained Know-how Framework/Factor 
  • Knowledge Packet
  • Retained Know-how Services/Rule Engine Server 
  • Assessment Control 

Within the Knowledge Aware process, Knowledge Packets are produced by the Retained Knowhow Framework, distributed via Retained Know-how Services and evaluated/deployed within the engineering workflow via Assessment Control.