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Implementing Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is a strategic issue in high-tech and electronic industry. Because PLM is an approach supported by an enterprise IT-system, it is difficult to assess how far a particular company has proceeded on the road to full implementation or what the relative position is compared to other companies in the branch. Maturity assessment methods have been developed...
This paper introduces the neutral data format AutomationML®[1]. It is designed as a data exchange format for engineering tools used in the engineering process of production system. AutomationML was developed by the companies Daimler, ABB, Siemens, Rockwell, Kuka, Zühlke, netAllied as well as the universities of Magdeburg and Karlsruhe. It is intended to become an open standard. The main objective...
Manufacturing companies that are expanding their product offering to cover also lifecycle services in the customers' facilities are facing the increasing complexity and risk to execute continuous business transition. Continuous relationship with customer and customer process supports life cycle learning and knowledge catching. Whole the value network around the customer process is continuously searching...
Integrate multidisciplinary virtual teams in collaborative design process is a hard task to tackle with. Differences of background, culture and expertise usually lead to conflicting situations. Moreover, if we consider to be working on a synchronous environment — where all designers exchange data and share information at the same time that the product design is being done — potential knowledge representation...
The aim of this work is to present the process for the concurrent design of aero-structure assembly lines. Such process will be used to develop a Knowledge Based System (KBS) to automatically generate feasible assembly line models during the conceptual phase of an aero-structure development. The assembly line models will be based on the product manufacturing solutions adopted, which are derived from...
Grid computing introduces a new paradigm for the realisation of efficient collaborative ICT infrastructures for VOs that has many advantages in comparison to other known approaches. However, due to some shortcomings with regard to industry VO requirements, practical uptake is still quite low, despite of the potential benefits. In this paper, we focus on three important issues regarding the achievement...
The information about IT platform created in project funded by EC in the 6th Framework Programme are presented in this paper. This platform is expected to become a single tool to manage complex activities related with a whole collaborative product development cycle. SMEs need a simple, cheap and easy to use tools to manage data exchange, to speed up project management, to support design and knowledge...
Collaboration and mobility are two actual trends in new product development today. Due to the globalization of the economies and the outsourcing of specific tasks, companies have to work together as Virtual Organisations. However, the work environments of the collaborating people are very complex. In every company different processes and IT systems are used. Additionally, people are seldom at their...
Collaboration and mobility are two actual trends in new product development today. Due to the globalization of the economies and the outsourcing of specific tasks, companies have to work together as Virtual Organisations. However, the work environments of the collaborating people are very complex. In every company different processes and IT systems are used. Additionally, people are seldom at their...
Presence and Ergonomics are key elements in the development of virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) systems and environments. This paper describes the contributions of these human factors to the digital factory within the DiFac (FP6-2005-IST-5-035079) European Commission funded research project. For Presence, the main contribution is the construction and validation of a new questionnaire called Flow...
Manufacturing companies that are expanding their product offering to cover also lifecycle services in the customers' facilities are facing the increasing complexity and risk to execute continuous business transition. Continuous relationship with customer and customer process supports life cycle learning and knowledge catching. Whole the value network around the customer process is continuously searching...
Development in rural European areas face many barriers. The Collaboration@Rural (C@R) EU project aims to remove these barriers through Collaborative Technologies adopted among Rural Living Labs across Europe, and to substantially contribute to the definition of a user-centric Open Collaborative Architecture. The paper presents the threefold C@R Open Service Oriented Architecture approach in System,...
Rural living labs constitute a new and not yet validated approach of enabling user driven ICT-based innovation initiatives geared towards economic and social development in rural areas. At the same time living labs provide a context for open innovation based on partnerships between all stakeholders. This paper discusses methodologies and strategies for developing, launching and operating rural living...
This paper presents an answer on the demand for more interoperability of data, systems and thus organisations. PROCESSUS as a particular project of the German national funded high-tech-initiative THESEUS has the objective to create an IT-based corporate system that will allow companies to compare products, solutions and details of business associates, as well as locating the complex and sometimes...
Today value creation is highly dependent on information and communication technology but also on cooperation between companies. The traditional value chain has been replaced by dynamic value networks. To support this new form of business, solutions for Enterprise Interoperability (EI) are indispensible. One possible form of solution constitutes EI platforms. To market them successfully adequate business...
The convergence of digital technology and the emergence of Web 2.0 have radically changed the nature of the digital content sector. This paper, building on a theoretical base of Evolutionary Diffusion Theory and business model analysis, initially summarises and updates the findings from the EC 5th Framework SimWeb project. It then argues the position that 21st-century technology providers are increasingly...
The traditional perspective on the value of Enterprise Interoperability (EI) — focused on the creation of increased efficiency in supply chains — does not sufficiently reflect the leverage that EI can provide to radical innovation in new dynamic collaborative networks between business partners. This leaves substantial potential value from EI underexploited. This paper presents a framework to better...
Teaching cooperation-related issues to AEC (Architecture, Engineering and Construction) students is a major stake nowadays. There are many reasons for that: construction projects become more and more complex and cooperation practices are evolving in both organizational and IT-based ways. It is notably for these reasons that the issue of IT is addressed in most of the AEC-oriented schools and universities...
The use and evolution of information and communication technologies is widening not only the process of communicating architecture but also it is challenging what we design and also how we design. The focus of this paper is to present and discuss a collaborative and virtual architectural design studio jointly undertaken by the Schools of Architecture of Toulouse in France, and Laval University in...
The Autonomous Provence of Trento (PAT) in Italy is developing a set of initiatives to sustain the regional innovation. While the public broadband infrastructure is being deployed, some more actions are being performed by local innovation agencies. The TasLab is a project sustained by the local government and created by the local ICT agency for the public administration, the University of Trento and...
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