Abstract
Before implementing a PDM-system within a company, the internal processes of product and process development and the information handled herein should be organized well. To enable this organization, one should be able to see the bottlenecks. Therefore the working methods and the documents involved should be made transparent. That is why the development processes of three automotive suppliers are analyzed and documented in three representations, formatted according to a generic scheme, to gain transparency of the processes. Based on these representations a so-called induced model of product and process development is created. In this paper, the format of the representations will be shortly explained, the application method for the realization of the representations will be described and some of the results will be illustrated. Also the research problems that came up during the research will be described.
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Vroom, R.W., Horváth, I., van der Vegte, W.F. (2002). Instruments to Visualize Design Engineering Working Methods in Automotive Supplier Companies. In: Karagiannis, D., Reimer, U. (eds) Practical Aspects of Knowledge Management. PAKM 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2569. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36277-0_31
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