During the last two decades, product labeling has become an increasingly used policy tool, particularly with respect to the provision of health and environmerrtd information. Theory holds that the flow of information among market participants plays a critical role in the efficient operation of markets. This paper explores the role of product labeling policy in ameliorating two potential market ...

Manufacturing firms are under many financial and competitive pressures which focus attention on the performance of their manufacturing processes. In this paper the opportunities for improving the environmental impact of products within the constraints of existing manufacturing infrastructure are examined. Approaches which support sustainability in two aspects are proposed, firstly, the provisio...

In product development companies, an important progress is the extensive development and deployment of collaborative design and manufacturing methodologies and systems, further to form a Collaborative Product Development (CPD) environment. It is in line with the growing trend of global cooperative design and outsourcing in product development. In a CPD environment, people are able to participat...

This paper presents an in-depth case study from a development project in the bank sector. The findings have implications for companies that consider openness in their innovation activities. A large company that wishes to involve suppliers, partners, customers and end-users need to be prepared organizationally, with e.g., motivated individuals, and allocated budgets. This applies regardless comp...

A hierarchical deployment of distributed product lifecycle management system in collaborative product development Yuan-Ping Luh a , Chih-Chin Pan b & Chih-Hsing Chu c a Institute of Manufacturing Technology , National Taipei University of Technology , Taipei, Taiwan b PDM/PLM Division , Alpha Precision Instrument Corporation , Taipei, Taiwan c Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineerin...

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This paper discusses the theoretical aspects and applications of a novel methodology for exploiting a knowledge management editor tool to structure organisational knowledge. An organisational knowledge framework for capturing and representing design and manufacturing know-how has been defined using an ontological approach. The key business benefit of adopting such an approach arises from the cl...

In this paper, the concept of two different modes for product development process is proposed. One is “release-oriented” product development, which is a fairly common way to develop various products up to now. The other is “head-oriented” product development, which is recently observed especially in the field of software/content development. The distinguishing difference and possible merits and...