A generic model of corporate memory: application to the industrial systems

This paper presents an industrial system model and a model of corporate memory supporting these models of systems. The corporate model sees the latter through two types of knowledge. Skill Knowledge, which constitutes the main capital knowledge of the company and refers to its basic skill. Theme Knowledge represents a specialized knowledge or a knowledge relating to a given field. The objective of the corporate memory model, named ReCaRo, is to capitalize knowledge by allowing its systematic re-use. ReCaRo builds corporate memories which have a multi memory architecture. This architecture means that every memory will be made up of five communicating memories. We will answer to two questions: 1) how can we model an industrial system? and 2) how can we implement the re-use principle in such systems