Quality Function Deployment (QFD) has been traditionally used as a planning tool primarily for product development and quality improvement. In this context, many people have used QFD for making decisions on how to prioritize critical product areas from a customer perspective. However, it is the position of the author that the QFD process can be viewed as a decision support system that would enc...

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...

level Academic scien�fic community Concrete project level Industry community Data level Academic scien�fic community Validity criterion Ontological appropriateness

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...

Alliedsignal Aerospace committed to disciplined corporate-wide sofnvae process improvement in 1992 using the Sofnare Engineering Institute’s (SEI) Software Capability A4aturity Model (CM&@ This paper describes the approach taken by AlliedSignal and the results achieved. The improvement initiative covers all software development and maintenance activities in product development that a#ect the qu...