A heartfelt thank you to The Japan Fluid Power Society for inviting Famic Technologies as presenters. 

Mr. Nasr’s presentation was titled: Machine Knowledge Management: Essential Ingredient for Increased Productivity and Reduced Time-To-Market.
Here is an excerpt: Across the wide spectrum of fields in the industry, all organizations have universally pursued common objectives of increasing productivity while trying to reduce machine time to market, albeit with varying degrees of success. As traditional non-integrated approaches have been proven inadequate due to lack of reusability of work throughout the lifecycle of a machine, a substantial shift is needed to upend these conventional work processes and introduce a new methodology based on effective machine knowledge management, starting from the initial conception of the idea, all through prototyping, design, optimization, until commissioning and production. 
This integrated approach preserves and leverages the knowledge created and accumulated from one phase to another throughout the entire life cycle of the machine, allowing for a seamless transfer between all stakeholders, eliminating rework and redundancy, accelerating innovation, and improving the overall efficiency of the process. 
The reusability of work from one phase to another, through a universal approach, favors synergy and communication between all the different stakeholders, and optimizes the work processes. Production tools used must be trade-oriented, adapting to the users, instead of the opposite.