A product data manager supporting a new co-design methodology for SMEs. (1st January 2003)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Biondi, Domenico; Bonfatti, Flavio; Monari, Paola Daniela; Giannini, Franca; Monti, Marina
• Is Part Of: International journal of computer applications technology. Volume 18:Number 1-4(2003)
• Page Start: 174
• Page End: 188
• Publication Date: 2003-01-01
• Subjects: collaborative design -- virtual enterprise -- product data management -- PDM -- product data exchange -- product design -- SMEs; Technology -- Data processing -- Periodicals; 620.00285
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0952-8091

Abstract

Today, SMEs are often required to provide a fast answer to customer's request for products tailored to its individual requirements; in consequence, it is quite common that SMEs working in the same industrial sector are oriented to cooperate with each other in order to reach a market objective that would be out of reach for a single enterprise, and that can be better achieved from a consortium of enterprises. Often, the cooperation is a real collaboration among the companies in the design of the new product. This paper describes a product data manager supporting the definition and the negotiation of the product data within a co-design network of SMEs. The described tool is part of the results of Esprit Project 25360 COWORK (COncurrent project development IT tools for small medium enterprises netWORKs).