This paper illuminates certain needs and solutions in collaborative engineering like the ability to initiate collaboration sessions without preparation steps, the acceptance of collaboration solutions due to heterogeneous IT landscapes and the protection of intellectual property rights. These problems are observed together with current solutions in commercial products and research projects. An overview of those solutions is presented, including their workings, problems and current state of development adding some in depth information about current research work conducted by the authors to address these problems.
Abstract-Large scale research projects at research institutes and universities bring together multiple researchers from different disciplines, with different goals together. For successful collaboration between the project partners, such projects need to be supported with suitable information systems that allow them to do research within an environment with changing requirements and goals. Thus the information system needs to be able to adapt to any kind of developments during the course of the project in order to ensure efficient research activities. To successfully implement such systems in large research projects technical solutions and organizational best practices are needed. This paper presents solutions and best practices developed within the Collaborative Research Center 2016 -Sustainable Manufacturing.Index Terms-Large scale research projects, collaboration platform, adaptable information systems.
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