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Collaborative engineering

About: Collaborative engineering is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 792 publications have been published within this topic receiving 11372 citations.


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TL;DR: The paper examines managing knowledge across boundaries in settings where innovation is desired and how this relates to the common knowledge that actors use to share and assess each other's domain-specific knowledge.
Abstract: The paper examines managing knowledge across boundaries in settings where innovation is desired. Innovation is a useful context because it allows us to explore the negative consequences of the path-dependent nature of knowledge. A framework is developed that describes three progressively complex boundaries--syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic--and three progressively complex processes--transfer, translation, and transformation. The framework is used to specify the practical and political mismatches that occur when innovation is desired and how this relates to the common knowledge that actors use to share and assess each other's domain-specific knowledge. The development and use of a collaborative engineering tool in the early stages of a vehicle's development is presented to illustrate the conceptual and prescriptive value of the framework. The implication of this framework on key topics in the organization theory and strategy literatures is then discussed.

2,687 citations

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TL;DR: The SHADE (SHAred Dependency Engineering) project strikes a balance between these undesirable extremes by supporting reconfigurable exchange of engineering knowledge among special-purpose CAE systems.
Abstract: Information shying and decision coordination arc central problems for collaborative product dcvclopmcnt and enterprise-wide coordination Designcrs, manufacturing cnginccrs, and marketing engineers nccd to assess the impact of their decisions and notify affected parties as the product evolves Yct, cxisting CAD tools tend to isolate information at tool boundarics, or make overly-strong commitmcnts to an all-encompassing common model Furthcrmorc, there is oftcn no automatcd support outside of thc design function The SHADE (SHAred Dcpcndcncy Engineering) project is working on knowlcdge-b~cd methods to improve the communication in the product dcvclopmcnt process Thcre arc three mare components of SHADE: a shared knowledge representation (language and domain-specific vocabulary); protocols for information cxch,’mgc enabling change notification and subscription; and facilitation scrviccs such ,as contcnt-dircctcd routing ,~nd intelligent matching of information consumers and producers SHADE is being applied to sew’r~d real domains, including the Palo Alto Collaborative Tcstbcd

358 citations

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TL;DR: It is found that C-Sketch not only has intrinsic merit, but also measures higher in all outcomes when compared to Method 6-3-5 and at least as good as the Gallery Method in the quality of ideas produced and better in variety and novelty of ideas.
Abstract: This paper presents the development and evaluation of a technique (C-Sketch) for concept generation in a collaborative engineering design setting. The paper reviews both the intrinsic merit of C-Sketch, as well as relative merit compared to other techniques in the same class. This analysis is based on results from experiments conducted over five years. Both the process and outcome were evaluated, with greater emphasis on the latter. This study found that C-Sketch not only has intrinsic merit, but also measures higher in all outcomes when compared to Method 6-3-5. Also, C-Sketch was at least as good as the Gallery Method in the quality of ideas produced and better in variety and novelty of ideas. This paper is a consolidation of all empirical studies related to C-Sketch.

269 citations

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TL;DR: Seven main categories of factors involved in collaboration are identified: Context, Support, Tasks, Interaction Processes, Teams, Individuals, and Overarching Factors, and summarised these in a framework which forms a basis for the model.

269 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the CIRP community's collective efforts to establish such a scientific foundation according to the “Observation → Hypothesis → Theory” development pathway are reported.

222 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20237
20228
202112
202012
201923
201822