Product Knowledge Management Within Knowledge-Based Engineering Systems

Sainter, Phil; Oldham, Keith B.; Larkin, Andrew B.; Murton, Adrian; Brimble, Richard

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“…An increasing number of organisations have started to realise the importance of deploying a methodology that provides a systematic and specified process for acquiring, storing, organising and communicating engineering knowledge (Price et al 2000;Nonaka and Takeuchi 1995;Schott et al 2000;Koch 2002;Sainter et al 2000;Rus and Lindvall 2002). However, there is a lack of methodologies that fully address KM as an integrated system (socio-technical).…”

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Rethinking IT in Construction and Engineering

Alshawi¹

2007

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How can the potential of IT be realised to improve business performance in architecture, construction and engineering organisations?How can organisations unleash the potential of IT to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage?How to migrate from technology to IT-enabled business thinking? Based on the author's 20 years research experience in this field, this book provides a holistic picture of the factors that enable architecture, construction and engineering organisations to explore the potential of IT to improve their businesses and achieve a sustainable competitive advantage. It raises awareness of the importance of the organisational "soft issues" and the role they play in influencing the outcome of IT investments. The book also addresses other complementary enablers such as knowledge management, learning organisations, maturity models and e-readiness measurements.Real case studies are used throughout the book to illustrate various concepts and to provide the reader with a realistic and practical picture. Rethinking IT in Construction and Engineering: Organisational Readiness is aimed at lecturers and researchers in architecture, construction and engineering. It will also be relevant to professionals at managerial level in industry.

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Rethinking IT in Construction and Engineering

Alshawi¹

2007

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“…Knowledge and knowledge management in Systems Engineering: Knowledge is often referred to as the experience, concepts, values, beliefs, education, and ways of working that can be shared and communicated (Sainter et al, 2000;Sols, 2014). Knowledge can broadly be classified into two categories: Explicit and tacit knowledge (Grover and Froese, 2016).…”

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“…Referring to Sainter et al (2000), knowledge management means to manage knowledge in a way that is enhancing the company's performance and creates value for the company. This is usually done by processes for creating, sustaining, applying, sharing, and renewing knowledge (Sainter et al, 2000). Creating knowledge can also be classified as a process of transforming tacit knowledge into explicit.…”

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“…If their asset is not properly stored and distributed within the company it can cause a loss and influence the development, economic aspects, delivery time, stakeholders, end-customers, and many other areas. Literature Review Knowledge and knowledge management in Systems Engineering: Knowledge is often referred to as the experience, concepts, values, beliefs, education, and ways of working that can be shared and communicated (Sainter et al, 2000;Sols, 2014). Knowledge can broadly be classified into two categories: Explicit and tacit knowledge (Grover and Froese, 2016).…”

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Conceptualizing the Lessons Learned Process in Delivery Projects: Detecting Knowledge Flow Barriers

Ahmad

Bergsjö

2021

INCOSE International Symp

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Knowledge is vital intellectual property and is one of the most significant assets of an organization. Notably, it needs to be highly prioritized and managed strategically to enhance continuous improvement by capturing and reusing knowledge. Technology enterprises are associated with innovation, productivity, a collaboration of multidisciplinary professionals, tight budgets, and challenging time-schedules. These factors combined are often what leads to challenges with knowledge management. Frequent disappointments with past knowledge management initiatives have motivated organizations to gain a new understanding of the complex mechanism of knowledge, which governs the effectiveness of an enterprise. This study elaborated on identifying knowledge flow barriers and handling knowledge by lessons learned (LL) practice in a case company and identify changes to ameliorate the flow. Albeit, the observations revealed that the difficulties related to finding LL documents were not the main issue, it was the contribution of the leaders. The case company demonstrated a discrepancy between what they said they do, and what they actually do. Besides these barriers, the research also detected divergence in the fundamental understanding of the theoretical aspects within knowledge management and LL, which indicates confusion and absence of awareness for the project managers and the leaders. Implementation of Systems Engineering (SE) methods, such as Communities of Practice (CoP) or triple loop lessons learned may fill both the gaps in the company but also in the literature when it comes to improving knowledge flow in large-sized delivery projects. on a continuing basis (Li and Oppenheim, 2002). Government Accountability Office (GAO) discovered that LL at NASA was not routinely identified, collected, reviewed, and accessed by projects managers, which impedes them from exploring space faster, better, and cheaper (Li and Oppenheim, 2002).We observed that the case company did not prioritize continuous lessons learned, documentation of it, and follow-up on the lessons learned. A consequence of this is that the engineers and other project participants are doomed to repeat the same mistakes because they cannot find any valuable documentation. Due to this low priority, they are limiting their full potential. The ability to create, capture, store, share, apply and reuse knowledge is a vital key in any project. If employees with specific skills, knowledge, and/or experience leave the company due to retirement, better job offers, personal reasons, death, and so forth, they will lose valuable expertise. If their asset is not properly stored and distributed within the company it can cause a loss and influence the development, economic aspects, delivery time, stakeholders, end-customers, and many other areas. Literature Review Knowledge and knowledge management in Systems Engineering: Knowledge is often referred to as the experience, concepts, values, beliefs, education, and ways of working that can be shared and communicated (Sainter et al., 2...

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“…The development of a software application for assisted or automatic configuration requires the representation of information and knowledge with proper IT tools [10]. The contents of the technical documents need to be translated in order to be implemented easily by means of a computer.…”

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The Role of Knowledge Based Engineering in Product Configuration

Colombo

Furini

Rossoni

2016

Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering

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Digital design and manufacturing are critical drivers of competitiveness but only few companies and organizations have the capability to support digitalization across the whole Product Lifecycle. In several cases the information flow is discontinuous, the roles and the issues are not properly defined, the tools are heterogeneous and not integrated in the company organization. An approach that considers an appropriate data and information organization, an efficient internal organization and the availability of integrated software tools that are implementing the industrial best practices, could innovate important and critical aspect of the industrial processes. This paper gives an overview of the main themes related to Knowledge Management in industrial context, focusing on product configuration process. The current role of the knowledge in product configuration will be discussed. Then, a brief overview on Knowledge-based Engineering will be presented. Regarding Knowledge Based methodology, acquisition and formalization techniques and tools will be analyzed. Finally, an application focused on assembly lines configuration will be presented

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Product Knowledge Management Within Knowledge-Based Engineering Systems

Cited by 18 publications

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Rethinking IT in Construction and Engineering

Rethinking IT in Construction and Engineering

Conceptualizing the Lessons Learned Process in Delivery Projects: Detecting Knowledge Flow Barriers

The Role of Knowledge Based Engineering in Product Configuration

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