A best practice advice system to support automotive engineering analysis processes

McMahon, Ann; Liu, Y.; Crossland, R; Brown, David C.; Leal, David; Devlukia, J.

doi:10.1007/s00366-003-0267-x

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“…Increasingly, however, structured information seeks to capture aspects of the organization's memory. Examples of applications include material on such topics as lessons learned (from previous projects) (NASA 2002), best practice advice (McMahon et al 2004), directories of expertise and organized repositories (Haas 2000), collections of company standards and so on. The formal KM activities of engineering companies today often consist of building such systems and making them available via corporate intranets and information portals.…”

Section: Information Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Knowledge management in engineering design: personalization and codification

McMahon

Lowe

Culley

2004

Journal of Engineering Design

159

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Knowledge management is one of the key enabling technologies of distributed engineering enterprises. It encompasses a wide range of organizational, management and technologically orientated approaches that promote the exploitation of an organizations' intellectual assets. Knowledge management approaches may be divided into personalization approaches that emphasize human resources and communication, and codification approaches that emphasize the collection and organization of knowledge. This distinction is used to explore the application of knowledge management in engineering design, after first outlining the engineering circumstances that have led to the current emphasis on the application. The paper then gives an overview of approaches to knowledge management through personalization, including human and organizational approaches, concentrating on the establishment of communities of practice. The role of information technology is explained both in terms of personalization (communication and team support through computer-supported cooperative work) and of codification through information management, knowledge structuring and knowledge-based engineering. The paper concludes with a discussion of the match of knowledge management approach to engineering circumstance, and of the current challenges of knowledge management.

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Section: Information Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%