Chapter 4: Collaborative Product Development

Title: Supporting collaborative engineering with enterprise knowledge models and a virtual environment

Author(s): Kurt Sandkuhl, Nikolay Shilov, Alexander Smirnov

Address: The University of Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Str. 22, 18059 Rostock, Germany | St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation (SPIIRAS), 39, 14 line, St.Petersburg, 199178, Russia | St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation (SPIIRAS), 39, 14 line, St.Petersburg, 199178, Russia

Reference: International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management 2010 pp. 204 - 214

Abstract/Summary: In a globalized business environment, many market opportunities require a continuous increase of product quality and decrease of costs in rapidly changing environments. Manufacturing companies transform both their product development structure and the structure of their business processes. From a technical perspective, collaborative engineering (CE) contributes to solving the upcoming challenges. CE aims at supporting a distributed group of engineers sharing a common collaboration objective in jointly performing an engineering task. The main contributions of the paper are 1) the discussion of industrial requirements with respect to collaboration support in dynamic environments 2) an integration of collaborative engineering and virtual environments based on enterprise knowledge models 3) evaluation of this integrated support from the perspective of CSCW principles.

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