An important source of competitive advantages for many organizations worldwide is the capacity to create designs for less complicated products, consisting of a small number easily assembled parts which, nonetheless, satisfy consumers' expectations, known as the Design for Assembly (DFA) approach. There is an obstacle in cataloguing these approaches, specifically, a lack of storage guidelines; consequently, the retrieval of this explicit knowledge is ineffective. The aim of this study is to identify storage guidelines for DFA information based on previous cases (CBR - Case-based reasoning), qualitative in kind and with a descriptive-exploratory purpose. It is noted that CBR highlights the possibility of explicit knowledge stored in an orderly manner, resulting in more efficient retrieval and a decrease in the amount of irrelevant information.
Knowledge Management; Design for Assembly (DFA); Case-based Reasoning
