Biologicalisation calls for the integration of biological knowledge in manufacturing. Although biologists have been cataloguing biological knowledge for centuries, for the non-biologist finding this inspiration as input for bio-inspired design is a major challenge. In this paper, three different methods are used to find bio-inspiration for a case study on the clamping interface of a flexible mobile machining unit: the AskNature database, a natural language processing (NLP) approach, drawing on a large corpus of biological publications, and an informal consultation of an expert biologist as could be organised by a design office. The comparison of the retrieved principles with AskNature as a baseline indicates that the NLP approach allows retrieving publications about relevant biological strategies with a good recall performance, without involving an expert. However, extracting the working principles from the biological articles retrieved with the NLP approach is found to be error-prone and time consuming.

生物化要求将生物学知识整合到制造业中。尽管生物学家对生物学知识进行分类已有数百年历史，但对于非生物学家而言，找到这一灵感作为生物灵感设计的输入是一项重大挑战。在本文中，使用三种不同的方法来寻找生物灵感，以对柔性移动加工单元的夹紧界面进行案例研究：AskNature数据库，一种自然语言处理（NLP）方法，借鉴了大量生物出版物，以及由设计办公室组织的专家生物学家的非正式咨询。将检索到的原则与​​AskNature作为基准进行比较，表明NLP方法可以检索具有良好召回性能的有关生物策略的出版物，没有专家参与。但是，从使用NLP方法检索的生物制品中提取工作原理发现容易出错且耗时。