DOCUMENT-BASED KM IN ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING Document-based Knowledge Management in Global Engineering and Manufacturing Projects

The core competence of a global engineering and manufacturing enterprise increasingly depends on the quality of its intellectual resources and how these resources are used. This paper presents an approach to document-based knowledge management in a typical global engineering and manufacturing application, the ANZAC Ship Project. 1. Document-based Knowledge Management 1.1 Documents in the Project Life Cycle With the globalisation of business activities, the core competence of a manufacturing enterprise increasingly depends on the quality of its intellectual capital and how this capital is used [1]. Intellectual capital is usually presented in the form of various kinds of documents. This paper discusses an approach towards the document-based knowledge management in the global engineering and manufacturing projects [2]. As shown in Figure 1, knowledge can be captured into documents at many stages in the project lifecycle and the nature and value of the reusable content and contextual knowledge varies with the project stage [3,4]. 1 To be published in GLOBEMEN, 2002, "Global engineering and manufacturing in enterprise networks". Proceedings of the GLOBEMEN conference, Helsinki and Espoo, Finland, 10-12 December 2002. Proceedings, Globemen Plenary Meeting No. 6. 8-13 December 2002, Helsinki, Finland. page 1 of 19 DOCUMENT-BASED KM IN ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING Project A Design Study Review, edit, signoff Review, edit, signoff Project A Bid Documents Review, negotiate, amend Project A Prime Contract Project A Subcontracts Project A Procedures, Design Docs Short List Bid RFT