abstract: in most industries the cost of raw materials and component parts constitutes almost 60% percent of cost of a product (in some industries up to 80%). in this situation, proper sourcing can play a key role in an organization's efficiency and effectiveness, because it has a direct effect on cost reduction, profitability and flexibility of a company. in this paper, determining the op...

The project management architecture and mechanisms of distributed concurrent product design in a virtual enterprise are discussed. The process of project management and its functions are presented. First, aiming at the characteristics of distributed concurrent product design process, the architecture of project management of distributed cooperative product design in the virtual enterprise is pr...

This paper is based on the research which was conducted earlier on Kansei Engineering (KE) and resulted in a new concept for scissors to redesign it with another method called “User Centered Design” (UCD). This is a shift from translation of the consumers’ psychological feeling about a product related to their perception of the design (KE) to focus on designing for and involving users in the de...

Product lifecycle management (PLM) systems formally represent product information across the different functional departments of an organization throughout an entire product lifecycle. Integrating the PLM systems with the emerging semantic web will improve the knowledge management capabilities of these systems. In recent works, the authors have developed the e-Design framework, a collaborative ...

New Organizational frameworks for companies dealing with product development are required for the new market rules as much as for the rising pressure and complexity in product and process development. Thus, the new stake is to examine new methods of leading the design activities. We examine tools and trends existing in collaborative design today and propose a repository and its software impleme...