While collaborative product development (CPD) is adopted by more and more firms as a business strategy, there is still lack of thorough research on the conditions under which the collaboration is formed. This paper proposes a mathematical model integrating trust, coordination, co-learning, and co-innovation dimensions of CPD. These dimensions, as well as additional parameters such as knowledge ...

Standards in general promise more efficiency and effectiveness in doing (electronic) business. Lowering the costs of collaboration, achieving these gains depends of the development and adoption of the standard in its business environment. Several studies report on research on electronic data interchange (EDI) and its added value to interorganisational collaboration. EDI messages have the purpos...

Collaborative product development is a growing trend as companies seek worldwide opportunities to extend their market as well as small and medium sized engineering enterprises concentrate on their core competences. Internet and Web technology facilitates the information sharing and exchange among widely distributed collaboration partners, however, the integration of business processes with the ...

Collaborative development of engineered products in a business-to-business (B2B) environment will require more than just the selection of components from an on-line catalogue. It will involve the electronic exchange of product, process, and production engineering information during both design and manufacturing. While the state-of-the-practice does include a variety of ways to exchange product ...

This article presents a survey of authorization models and considers their 'fitness-for-purpose' in facilitating information sharing. Network-supported information sharing is an important technical capability that underpins collaboration in support of dynamic and unpredictable activities such as emergency response, national security, infrastructure protection, supply chain integration and emerg...

Singapore manufacturing SMEs are losing ground to operations in low cost countries and need to embrace higher value-add activities such as product development (PD). Simultaneously, increasing globalization and specialization is leading to the formation of design chains for PD. For SMEs to successfully collaborate, bid and perform in such a scenario, they will need the support of flexible tools ...

Collaborative product development is becoming more valuable because of the increasing coordination and management complexity of organizational information, responsibilities, schedules, deliverables, product information, and business process. As outsourcing and globalization increase the number of design chain participants, a collaborative product development speeds up the decision-making of tru...

With advances of several enabling technologies such as web services, ontology, and semantic web, the business environments are shifting to an open business environment where business applications autonomously share information and coordinate decisions with each other without any human intervention. This open business environment provides supply chains with the opportunity to generate executable...