Knowledge sharing in communities has attracted much attention in the field of knowledge management in research and practice. In this paper we outline a view where the community lifecycle is supported at different stages. The central component of our framework is the community ontology SWRC+COIN that describes the typical structure of communities. We exemplarily show how communities in the acade...

viii decisions towards sustainability. Closed loop Lifecycle Management contains four main components, PEIDs’ for collecting data, middle ware to combine different applications and collect and distribute life cycle data, a decision support system (DSS) to transform the collected data into usable information and a product knowledge and management sys tem (PDKM) to manage the information and know...

In the extended enterprise context, many stakeholders act on the product during all its lifecycle. They influence the product development and managers have to be able to control all the activities and their interactions that are generating the different processes. They have also to manage each actor involved in the project during the product lifecycle. In this paper, propose an approach to iden...

Prior to the physical build of industrial automation system, some challenges arise, such as processes’ cycle times calculations, ergonomics and safety evaluation, integration separate machines complete production shops. This, in turn, requires reconfiguring processes component parameters. As a result, lifecycle system development is prolonged, potential for erroneous performance increases. In m...

This study discusses a diagnostic approach to examining the lifecycle support system of a weapon system—specifically illustrating the approaches for the US Navy Phalanx Closein Weapon System (CIWS). The study gauges the status of current readiness and analyzes a snapshot of cost structures. The study identifies the program’s influential cost factors and system performance drivers. As a diagnost...