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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...
This article aims at presentation of the emerging concepts and experiences of the Lubelskie Living Lab — the first Living Lab in Poland. The idea of LLL is based on the integration of the regional Spatial Information System, SIPL, with the regional governance principles, and their strengthening in future as a result of livinglabbing methodologies being applied to it.
An effective supply chain management and order processing is essential to focus on the needs of the customers. Supporting core business processes by means of an enterprise resource planning system (ERP) is no longer a competitive advantage, but state of the art. The key is to build future-oriented enterprise systems solutions (ES), which allow process design tools to configure the actual business...
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...
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...
Several SME's of the Serra Gaúcha, a prosperous region in the Northeast of the state of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), have noted lately that they were becoming less competitive. The solution they found to increase competitiveness was to establish a conducive environment for cooperation among them, a process fostered by the Collaborative Networks Program of the state government. Eight out of 25 networks...
The public sector is seen to play an important role as a facilitator of innovativeness and competitiveness in the private sector. Besides this important role the innovativeness in the public sector must also be promoted in new ways because of the new challenges facing public sector service production. This paper introduces the ideas of the emerging open innovation paradigm in the public sector context...
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...
Large organisations tend to force suppliers to follow their rules in terms of IT and organisational solutions. Small and medium size enterprises (SME) have still no choice. Usually they have to follow the pressure and in a worst case to implement for each customer or supplier specific processes and IT solutions. Sometimes this results in additional cost and time consuming manual tasks. Therefore,...
This paper presents an innovative approach to support collaboration in manufacturing industry, especially related to intelligent monitoring of complex assembly and manufacturing systems in global settings. The new collaborative platform built based on service-oriented architectures principles is proposed. The innovative collaborative services to be combined with the existing tools for monitoring of...
Collaboration between enterprises (SMEs) in a common business environment, from the technical point of view, requires a powerful IT-platform oriented to manage collaborative processes and interaction. Key elements are Value chain modelling and managing, intelligent content management across SMEs network, web services interoperability using standards to connect heterogeneous platforms. The focal point...
In order to enhance the classically process of connecting devices to virtual reality applications the device integration tool Immersive Integrator is developed in the scope of the DiFac (Digital Factory Human Oriented Production System) project by Fraunhofer IPA. The article presents the method of modelling used for the Immersive Integrator based on task composition taxonomies. Afterwards it describes...
The C@R project follows the development of seven living labs in different countries. This paper will make a preliminary study of these living lab user involvement situation from the point of view of activity theory, as a framework for analysis and understanding.
This paper discusses the potential of CSCW tools to monitor and motivate collaborative behaviour of students in design projects. After a brief review of theories on collaborative learning and collaborative behaviour, the paper presents the author's observations of issues experienced by students in collaborative design projects. These issues are compared to the capabilities of the various categories...
Commonly European development challenges come from structural changes in service and industry sectors resulting in new working opportunities and unemployment, at the same time. Higher fuel costs and concerns about climate changes also threaten sustainable development. — What are the implications of those challenges for the economic development of a City like Jämsä where populations are shrinking and...
Software industry is living in a continuous evolution and revolution of new technologies in order to provide new ways for enabling interoperability among organisations. Such technologies are gaining relevance depending on their added value, and they are under an iterative capabilities improvement process. Model driven development (MDD) and Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) are some of these current...
Due to global market and the emerging economies, industry is living its most difficult days ever. To survive in this new economic picture, they must find an organisational solution enabling them to cope with global business opportunities without suffering from limited resources or exposing themselves to the risk of direct investment. The inclusion of additional life-time services is, nowadays, one...
The paper proposes the use of product data technology to better manage the complexity of information needed to design products with a low environmental impact throughout the whole life cycle, from the "cradle to the grave". The use of these standards has to be considered as an investment which brings not only to meet the requirements of the Integrated Product Policy promoted by the European...
With the wearIT@work project the European Commission and 42 partners from 16 countries invested into a new technology empowering mobile workers. The first 42 months of this project are over and industrial demonstrators, evaluations and results and an exploitation strategy are available. Beside the four application domains of maintenance, production, healthcare and emergency response further domains...
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:...
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