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Today's requirements in production process efficiency combined with their increasing complexity represent a great challenge for staff members at all levels (from the assembly worker to the plant manager). The ultimate goal is the fine-tuning of the production process to perfectly fulfil customer orders and to keep the overall efficiency at high levels. Through scenarios based on real situations, and...
This paper aims at better understanding the way currently mobile professionals work remotely in collaboration with others both within and beyond the company and matching these current ways of working with the most appropriate open source software (OSS) collaboration tools. This is achieved through addressing the current state of art in the mobility challenges and identifying what is working well or...
Enterprise Integration is often seen as the technical or organisational linkage of firms' application systems or structures. In this paper we present a rather different view, introducing a mobile application which linked organic primary producers both to their certification body and to one another. The participants in this proof of concept study found real benefits from the services provided, both...
Time to market, competition and manufacturing costs are only some of the reasons why concurrent engineering is an increasingly used methodology for product development. The present paper deals with a case study of university-industry cooperation to develop an improved part for an automotive application, with three main concerns: economic, performance and environmental. Four universities gathered to...
This paper describes the framework and the implementation plan of a web-based platform for supporting collaborative product design evaluation, demonstration and customization. The relevant industrial needs are first outlined. A short overview is given on current Research and Development (R&D) activities aiming at addressing these needs. The conceptual framework and the functionality of the suggested...
Growing global competition requires companies not only to offer high quality and innovative products with competitive prices, but also to understand and identify new business opportunities wherever they may be and to develop the sustainable supply chains necessary to take advantage of these opportunities. These latter trends suggest that countries need to maintain their competitiveness both by having...
Innovation is crucial for growth in highly developed regions. Still, it remains a challenge to foster innovation deliberately. Regional intermediaries can play an important role and provide platforms that induce networks and conversations. Analysis of examples from Central Switzerland and from Extremadura, Spain, shows three patterns typical for the most innovative SME: To take time for creative thought:...
As part of the 3D-Child project, the Children Center of Excellence of Cholet wants to provide member companies (mostly small-to-medium size companies, or SME's) with a Virtual Reality tool to help them design and evaluate their future products. This collaborative tool will allow for increased creativity within the teams, and reduced design lead-time. This paper presents the advantages of an anthropocentric...
The Living Lab concept is based on open innovation and serves as a platform for different stakeholders in the innovation system (cities, companies, universities). There is a strong emphasis on user participation. The aim of this paper is to study in depth the experiences of Living Lab innovation environment/platform by qualitative case study method to gain more understanding of the best practices...
Collaborative innovations may be generated and well driven by strong visions and the progresses can be optimised by adequate monitoring and control. The paper specifies a verified framework for collaborative innovation for the case of small firms. Using the criticality concept it narrows down the attributes to be observed to a minimum set. The quantifications of these attributes provide for a reliable...
Today's world is characterized by increasing complexity, uncertainty and change. Several authors have found in Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) the basis for more suitable management models that should allow firms to adapt and survive under highly complex, uncertain and changing environments. The incorporation of external capabilities and knowledge through open innovation can increase an organization's...
In the face of intensifying global competition, especially from the USA and Japan, but not forgetting the emerging markets or BRICs: Brazil, Russia, India and China (Paliwoda, S. 2006), Finland has recognised the pressing need to advance its competitiveness in a number of key industries. Through the adoption of a sophisticated triple helix-based National Cluster Programme, the conditions have been...
How to guarantee a dignified ageing for European citizens? To resolve this dilemma we need increasing human resources but also cost effective technical innovations. The aim of this project is to extend the time during which elderly people, who suffer with memory disorder can live independently in their preferred environment with the support of assistive ambient technology. The main target groups of...
There is a need for new and innovative ways to produce and deliver user-centric services for the benefit of citizens and customers. Simultaneously, rapid development of technology brings new opportunities to produce services more and more cost-efficiently and quickly to end-users. From the viewpoint of a company new services and products must be launched to market through a quick innovation process...
The ideation process — often called the fuzzy front-end to innovation — is one of the most crucial steps when starting industrial- and especially collaborative — innovation processes. There are numerous creativity techniques like brainstorming to be used in this early phase. This paper introduces another approach based on Serious Gaming. A game to structure the ideation process — refQuest — has been...
The objective of E4 is the development of an innovative web-based integrated engineering environment specifically tailored to the needs of the SMEs operating in a design-network which involves companies from all over Europe. Cost reduction and collaboration between enterprises in a common business environment have propped the network enterprise model. The typical network includes many actors operating...
This paper tackles the strong demand for design steering aiming at improving the quality of design and thus reducing the appearance of dysfunctions. With regard to this, we highlight the multidisciplinary characteristics as well as the predictive and reactive aspects of design steering in architecture. Then, based on existing models, we propose a model combining three primary activities (analysis,...
European industry is within a drastic change implementing architecture combining mass customisation and lot size one benefits. Therefore, the requirement number one is flexibility. Within this paper an overall concept for manufacturing system improvement developed within the EC project PABADIS'PROMISE is described facing this requirement and providing a new control structure solution composed of several...
Nowadays we observe new tendencies in organizations trying to accommodate to the changing global environment. The accent is put on knowledge and crossing the countries' boundaries. Some innovations concerning teamwork and project workflow are necessary. New types of organizations appear as, among others, the Virtual Teams. Important barriers for virtual cooperative work appear and we must find potential...
This Project consists in designing and deploying a module of knowledge for the academic program of Data Systematization and Engineering in Telematics of the Technological Faculty of the "Universidad Distrital Francisco Jose de Caldas" that makes stronger the teaching processes and empower of knowledge inside the members of the community of the university. This design deals with getting an...
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