Sharing engineering design knowledge in a distributed environment

Sharing engineering design knowledge in a distributed environment

Engineering design is a complex activity, relying heavily on know-how gained from personal experience. Competitive pressures and new technology are making further demands on the skills and experience of designers, as effective knowledge reuse in design is seen as increasingly vital, and the work of design teams is often a collaborative and distributed activity. University students with a thorou...

Sharing Tacit Design Knowledge in a Distributed Design Environment

Knowledge Management In The Engineering Design Environment

The Aerospace and Defense industry is experiencing an increasing loss of knowledge through workforce reductions associated with business consolidation and retirement of senior personnel. Significant effort is being placed on process definition as part of ISO certification and, more recently, CMMI certification. The process knowledge in these efforts represents the simplest of engineering knowle...

A knowledge management application to support knowledge sharing in a design engineering community

The changing competitive landscape has brought new forces to bear on the manner in which new products are developed. These forces have put the creation and dissemination of knowledge at the centre of many firms’ new product development (NPD) strategies. Organizational models to support NPD have evolved over the years and a significant aspect of this evolution has been the emergence of organizat...

Load Sharing in a Distributed Environment

A network of UNIX [Ritchie, 1974] workstations is becoming a common sight in modern computing environments. Each workstation provides powerful computing resources which are periodically in strong demand by the local user. However even in busy environments, a significant proportion of these machines will be idle or underutilized at any one time. By supplementing the local computing resources thr...