TY - JOUR
T1 - Industrial challenges in managing product development knowledge
AU - Maksimovic, Maksim
AU - Al-Ashaab, Ahmed
AU - Shehab, Essam
AU - Flores, Myrna
AU - Ewers, Paul
AU - Haque, Badr
AU - Furian, Robert
AU - Von Lacroix, Frank
AU - Sulowski, Robert
N1 - Funding Information:
The research presented in this paper has been conducted as part of a European project titled ‘Lean Product and Process Development (LeanPPD)’. The project involves multiple research and industrial partners from the UK, Spain, Germany, Italy and Poland. The project is supported by the Commission of European Community (contract number NMP-2008-214090) under the NMP Programme (Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies). The authors wish to acknowledge the European Commission for its support as well as the other partners in the consortium ( http://www.leanppd.eu ).
PY - 2014/11/1
Y1 - 2014/11/1
N2 - To systematically create and share product development knowledge creates challenges for engineering companies. This paper presents an extensive study regarding the process of identifying such challenges in managing product development knowledge from the perspective of designers and engineers. This research is part of the LeanPPD, a project funded by the EU-PF7 (www.leanppd.eu), to address the need of European manufacturing companies for a new model, which extends beyond lean manufacturing and incorporates lean thinking into the product design and development process. A rigorous research methodology has been employed, which included the use of questionnaires and focused interviews with key informants from industry, involving forty-two product development engineers from nine different companies. The most significant concerns raised during the study concerned knowledge life cycle activities, product development environment and management. Thirty-eight challenges were identified, classified and discussed in order to provide the knowledge management community with practical evidence, and also to inform future research directions in managing product development knowledge.
AB - To systematically create and share product development knowledge creates challenges for engineering companies. This paper presents an extensive study regarding the process of identifying such challenges in managing product development knowledge from the perspective of designers and engineers. This research is part of the LeanPPD, a project funded by the EU-PF7 (www.leanppd.eu), to address the need of European manufacturing companies for a new model, which extends beyond lean manufacturing and incorporates lean thinking into the product design and development process. A rigorous research methodology has been employed, which included the use of questionnaires and focused interviews with key informants from industry, involving forty-two product development engineers from nine different companies. The most significant concerns raised during the study concerned knowledge life cycle activities, product development environment and management. Thirty-eight challenges were identified, classified and discussed in order to provide the knowledge management community with practical evidence, and also to inform future research directions in managing product development knowledge.
KW - Challenges
KW - Classification
KW - Empirical evidence
KW - Knowledge management
KW - Product development
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U2 - 10.1016/j.knosys.2014.07.016
DO - 10.1016/j.knosys.2014.07.016
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85027946606
VL - 71
SP - 101
EP - 113
JO - Knowledge-Based Systems
JF - Knowledge-Based Systems
SN - 0950-7051
ER -