Knowledge Based Engineering (KBE) is a research area for product design that involves complex and iterative processes based on methodologies and technologies for capture and reuse of product knowledge. Although KBE has been proposed to support product development for the last decade, it is still far to complete. As this is an attractive research area for the past decade many approaches are developed based on parametric, function based, web-based, case-based, ontology technologies for enhancing the capabilities of KBE. This paper is an effort to collect and review existing literature on KBE evolution, approaches and methodologies. The evolution of the KBE definition is also briefly discussed along with the current limitation and future trends of KBE. The objective of the review paper is to identify the foundation and research issues of KBE in the light of parametric, function based, web-oriented modeling.
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