TY - JOUR
T1 - Methodology and system framework for knowledge management in allied concurrent engineering
AU - Wang, Chin Bin
AU - Chen, Yuh Min
AU - Chen, Yuh Jen
AU - Ho, Chengter
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors are grateful to National Science Council, Taiwan, ROC for financially supporting this research under Contract No: NSC 92-2212-E-006-065.
PY - 2005/1
Y1 - 2005/1
N2 - Engineering processes are recognized as one of the most knowledge-intensive business processes. Allied concurrent engineering is a distributed and collaborative engineering process, in which individuals from different disciplines and enterprises cooperate to design a product and to develop related processes through remote coordination, communication and control. The key to the success of allied concurrent engineering is believed to be full understanding and effective sharing of product and process knowledge throughout the development cycle. This study presents a systematic approach to developing a methodology and a system framework for knowledge management to support allied concurrent engineering. The approach presented in this study comprises four phases: (1) allied concurrent engineering characterization, (2) knowledge identification, analysis and modelling, (3) KM strategy and methodology development, and (4) system development. The methodology consists of a rationale behind the methodology, a life cycle model for knowledge management, and a distributed knowledge management framework. The proposed methodology serves as a basis for designing a knowledge management system framework using component technology. Besides providing knowledge management and sharing functions, the system meets the hierarchical, distributed, flexible and dynamic-configurable characteristics of allied concurrent engineering.
AB - Engineering processes are recognized as one of the most knowledge-intensive business processes. Allied concurrent engineering is a distributed and collaborative engineering process, in which individuals from different disciplines and enterprises cooperate to design a product and to develop related processes through remote coordination, communication and control. The key to the success of allied concurrent engineering is believed to be full understanding and effective sharing of product and process knowledge throughout the development cycle. This study presents a systematic approach to developing a methodology and a system framework for knowledge management to support allied concurrent engineering. The approach presented in this study comprises four phases: (1) allied concurrent engineering characterization, (2) knowledge identification, analysis and modelling, (3) KM strategy and methodology development, and (4) system development. The methodology consists of a rationale behind the methodology, a life cycle model for knowledge management, and a distributed knowledge management framework. The proposed methodology serves as a basis for designing a knowledge management system framework using component technology. Besides providing knowledge management and sharing functions, the system meets the hierarchical, distributed, flexible and dynamic-configurable characteristics of allied concurrent engineering.
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U2 - 10.1080/09511920412331284753
DO - 10.1080/09511920412331284753
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:27844452882
SN - 0951-192X
VL - 18
SP - 53
EP - 72
JO - International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing
JF - International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing
IS - 1
ER -