Title: Collaborative working environment for innovation in manufacturing industry
Abstract: The paper addresses the problems of collaboration of teams in manufacturing industry in the scope of innovation processes. The problems of involving different teams and specifically shop-floor teams in product/process innovation are analysed. The objective is to develop a new platform based on software collaborative services supporting different innovation processes where different teams - product and process design, maintenance, shop-floor teams but also customers etc. - around the complex assembly and manufacturing lines have to be involved. The work presented includes a design of new tools and core collaborative services for development of such a platform, aiming at supporting different collaboration patterns. Several potential applications of the platform are described.
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-06-04
Language: en
Type: article
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