Knowledge management system for screed design of Asphalt Paver

With the development of economy globalization, knowledge management system (KMS) has emerged as a major issue that designers or companies must deal with. KMS opens up another domain for building new engineering design methodology, which is highly creative, knowledge-intensive, extensive information exchange and communication among distributed teams. KMS overcomes the obstacles of failing to provide adequate support and integrating product information due to their inflexible data structures in traditional design method. Asphalt paver works as a construction machine mainly used for the paving project on the road base and surface for highway of various kinds of material. Screed is the kernel function part of paver, so researching the new design approach of screed is the key for developing new pavers. In this paper, we advocate a knowledge management system for screed design of asphalt paver, develop the framework and express the implement process of KMS.