Abstract
Today’s engineering companies are facing unprecedented competition in a global market place. There is now a knowledge intensive shift towards whole product lifecycle support, and collaborative environments. It has become particularly important to capture information, knowledge and experiences about previous design and following stages during their product lifecycle, so as to retrieve and reuse such information in new and follow-on designs activities. Recently, with the rapid development and adoption of digital technologies, annotation and markup are becoming important tools for information communication, retrieval and management. Such techniques are being increasingly applied to an array of applications and different digital items, such as text documents, 2D images and 3D models. This paper presents a state-of-the-art review of recent research in markup for engineering design, including a number of core markup languages and main markup strategies. Their applications and future utilization in engineering design, including multi-viewpoint of product models, capture of information and rationale across the whole product lifecycle, integration of engineering design processes, and engineering document management, are comprehensively discussed.
Highlights
More and more contemporary companies are shifting their business paradigm from design and manufacture of artefacts to the provision of through-life support, leading to a knowledge intensive product, covering a large area, engineering issues, but human and business related, spanning the whole product life cycle [1,2]
Annotation has been widely used in different digital items, including text documents, structured data, 2D images, 3D models and multimedia
This paper has presented a contemporary review of the latest research into the area of annotation and its subtype, markup related to engineering design
Summary
More and more contemporary companies are shifting their business paradigm from design and manufacture of artefacts to the provision of through-life support, leading to a knowledge intensive product, covering a large area, engineering issues, but human and business related, spanning the whole product life cycle [1,2]. The design process can be regarded as a series of activities, which aim to create a desired artefact. Included in this process are: decision-making, problem-solving, rationale related to decisions, and various information resources (such as catalogues, design/factory guidelines, and properties databases). This paper presents a state-of-the-art review of recent research in markup for engineering design aiming to provide a complete view of markup on requirements, technique status, applications and future directions.
Sign-in/Register to view highlights & summary Sign-in/Register to access full text options 
Talk to us
Join us for a 30 min session where you can share your feedback and ask us any queries you have
Schedule a callDisclaimer: All third-party content on this website/platform is and will remain the property of their respective owners and is provided on "as is" basis without any warranties, express or implied. Use of third-party content does not indicate any affiliation, sponsorship with or endorsement by them. Any references to third-party content is to identify the corresponding services and shall be considered fair use under The CopyrightLaw.
