Visteon Global Technolgoies, Inc.

Daimlerchrysler Corporation

Basil Alsayyed

Daniel Cornelius Bach

Albert James Dapoz

James L Mitchell

Kousik Chakrabarti

Bing Li

Larry Bahm

Ta-chuan Sun

Patrick Lee Vallad

Susan Yester

Anis Limaiem

Richard King-Hong Leung

Oleg Lukibanov

Bing Xu

Yung-Sen Steven Sheng

A method and system for upfront analysis of at least one substance used in the design process of a vehicle. A vehicle ontology is created that is stored in a database. The vehicle ontology records all the substances used in the design of the vehicle along with all the attributes of the substances and the relations between the substances. All the standards for the substances and the attributes of the standards are recorded in a materials ontology. A knowledge base engine, e.g., the database, analyzes the materials ontology to determine whether a substance conforms to a standard, e.g., a recyclability requirement.

Knowledge based recycable materials system

A method of knowledge-based engineering design of an instrument panel for a vehicle includes the steps of defining a parameter of the instrument panel using a knowledge-based engineering library stored in a memory of a computer system, generating a model of the instrument panel based on the parameter and analyzing the model of the instrument panel. The method also includes the steps of comparing a result of the analysis of the model of the instrument panel to a predetermined criteria from the knowledge-based engineering library, and varying the parameter so that the model of the instrument panel meets the predetermined criteria.

Method of knowledge-based engineering design of an instrument panel

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Windsor, CA, United States of America

Basil Alsayyed