The Situation of Chinese Manufacturing and Theory of Modern Design

Y.B. Xie Professor Shanghai Jiaotong University
and Xi'an Jiaotong University
Shanghai, People's Republic of China The problem with Chinese manufacturing is that how China can become a strong manufacturing country from a big manufacturing country? The situation is: 1. Lack of new Knowledge with Chinese own property. 2. Lack of the capability of discovering and describing new Knowledge with Chinese own property. 3. Lack of the Knowledge of inserting new technologies in new design, say capability of matching, of making optimum life cycle performance and of meeting the life cycle constrain requirements. Our strategy and the activities for solving the problem are developing a distributed resource environment in China, any enterprise anywhere can ask and obtain Knowledge Service for design activities providing by intelligent resource units outside of the enterprise via internet or other tools in such an environment. Some theoretical results coming from the activities form what we called the Theory of Modern design.

Location: Stauffer Science Lecture Hall, Room 100 (SLH 100)

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: April Mundy