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Johansson, Sara. "Knowledge, Product Differentiation and Trade." Doctoral thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, Nationalekonomi, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-14541.
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The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the influence of knowledge on the export performance of firms in different regions. More specifically, this study focuses on the impact of knowledge on the structure of regional export flows, in terms of horizontal and vertical product differentiation, as well as the geographical distribution of export flows. The thesis consists of four separate papers, which contribute to the overall analysis of knowledge, product differentiation and international trade in different ways. The second chapter presents a study of the effects of regional accessibility to R&D on the diversity of export flows with regard to goods, firms and destination markets. Chapter 3 provides an empirical analysis of vertical product differentiation, i.e. differentiation in terms of product quality, and examines the impact of educated labor and R&D on regional comparative advantages in goods of relatively high product quality. Chapter 4 contains a study of how the regional endowment of highly educated workers affects the structure of export flows, i.e. how the endowment of educated workers impacts on the number of product varieties exported, the average price per variety and the average quantity shipped out. The final chapter presents a micro-level analysis of firms’ propensity to participate in international markets and their propensity to expand export activities by introducing new export products or establishing export links with new destination countries. In summary, the empirical results of this thesis convey the message that regional accessibility to knowledge, embodied in highly educated labor and/or developed through R&D activities, plays a fundamental role in shaping the content and structure of regional export flows. More specifically, the present empirical observations suggest that the regional endowment of knowledge stimulates the size of the export base in terms of exporting firms and number of product varieties. The recurring significance of the accessibility variables in explaining spatial export patterns show that the knowledge endowment of a region must be defined in such ways that it captures sources of potential knowledge spillovers from inside as well as outside its own regional boundaries. This outcome shows that regional variations in knowledge endowments originate both in the actual spatial distribution of a nation’s knowledge labor across regions, and in regional differences in the geographical accessibility to internal and external knowledge labor.
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Lagos, Nikolaos. "Knowledge-based product support systems." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2007. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/54573/.
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This research helps bridge the gap between conventional product support, where the support system is considered as a stand-alone application, and the new paradigm of responsive one, where the support system frequently communicates with its environment and reacts to stimuli. This new paradigm would enable product support knowledge to be captured, stored, processed, and updated automatically, being delivered to the users when, where and in the form they need it. The research reported in this thesis first defines Product Support Systems (PRSSs) as electronic means that provide accurate and up-to-date information to the user in a coherent and personalised manner. Product support knowledge is then identified as the integration of product, task, user, and support documentation knowledge. Next, the thesis focuses on an ontology-based model of the structure, relations, and attributes of product support knowledge. In that model product support virtual documentation (PSVD) is presented as an aggregation of Information Objects (IOs) and Information Object Clusters (IOCs). The description of PSVD is followed by an analysis of the relation between IOs, IOCs, and domain knowledge. Then, the thesis builds on the ontology-based representation of product support knowledge and explores the synergy between product support, problem solving, and knowledge engineering. As a result, a structured problem solving approach is introduced that combines case-based adaptation and model-based generation techniques. Based on that approach a knowledge engineering framework for product support systems is developed. A conceptual model of context-aware product support systems that extends the framework is then introduced. The conceptual model includes an ontology-based representation of knowledge related to the users, their activities, the support environment, and the device being used. An approach to semi-automatically integrating design and documentation data is also proposed as part of context-aware product support systems development process.
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Ozkan, Gulru F. "Essays on knowledge management strategies in new product development." Diss., Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/28282.
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Thesis (M. S.)--Management, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2009.Committee Chair: Cheryl Gaimon; Committee Co-Chair: Stylianos Kavadias; Committee Member: Marco Ceccagnoli; Committee Member: Pinar Keskinocak; Committee Member: Vinod Singhal.
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Enberg, Cecilia. "Knowledge Integration in Product Development Projects." Doctoral thesis, Linköping : Institutionen för ekonomisk och industriell utveckling, Linköpings universitet, 2007. http://www.bibl.liu.se/liupubl/disp/disp2007/arts384s.pdf.
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Wickstrøm, Jensen Kent. "Knowledge-integration networks in product development /." [Odense] : Univ. Press of Southern Denmark, 2006. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/518770052.pdf.
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Newey, Lance R. "Knowledge exploitation capabilities and value creation in interorganizational new product development /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2005. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe18928.pdf.
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Giovannini, Antonio. "A knowledge representation framework for the design and the evaluation of a product variety." Thesis, Université de Lorraine, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015LORR0002/document.
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La conception de variété (ou diversité) de produit est un processus essentiel pour atteindre le niveau de flexibilité requis par la personnalisation de masse. Pendant le processus de conception de la variété, les clients et les experts sont impliqués dans la définition de la meilleure solution. Par conséquent, la compréhension des liens entre les connaissances provenant de ces différents domaines, i.e. client, produit, processus est devenue nécessaire. Dans cette thèse, nous nous intéressons en particulier à la formalisation de ces connaissances. En effet, même si plusieurs efforts ont étés accomplis dans le domaine de la représentation de la connaissance, la pensée logiciste (i.e. utilisation de méthode à base de logiques formelles) reste la base de la majeure partie des travaux sur la formalisation de la connaissance. Des réflexions appropriées sur l’utilisation des logiques peuvent montrer les risques d’ambiguïté de la représentation: l’utilisation de la logique conduit souvent à une représentation sujette à plusieurs interprétations, i.e. une représentation ambiguë. Une représentation avec cette caractéristique ne répond pas à l’exigence de bien comprendre les liens entre les différentes connaissances impliquées dans la conception de la variété. Notre travail s’intéresse, donc, au développement d’un cadre de modélisation de la connaissance de conception basé sur l’anti-logicisme. Les travaux sur les systèmes développés à partir des principes de cette école de représentation de la connaissance montrent à travers des applications concrètes dans les domaines de la robotique ou des systèmes multi-agents que les comportements intelligents peuvent être obtenus sans une représentation de la connaissance basée sur les logiques. Ce cadre permet de développer une variété de produit-processus à partir d’une clientèle définie au départ. Finalement, un critère pour comparer les différentes alternatives de variété générées est aussi proposé. Une méthode pour instancier le cadre de modélisation sur un logiciel de CAO 3D a été développée. De plus, un prototype pour utiliser les modèles de connaissance avec un solveur mathématique a été conçu et développé. Les propositions ont été testées sur un cas d’étude industriel, i.e. batterie froide d’un appareil de réfrigération. Ce test a permis de discuter les avantages et les limites de nos propositionsThe product variety design is an essential process in order to deal with the flexibility requested by the mass-customisation. During the product variety stage, customers and expert are involved in the definition of the best variety. Therefore a deep understanding of the links between knowledge coming from the customer domain, product domain and process domain is needed. In this thesis the research focus is on the formalisation of this knowledge. Indeed, even if many efforts are present in the knowledge representation literature, logics are always used to build these links. But appropriate reflections about the use of logics can lead to recognise the risk of ambiguity of the representations, i.e. more than one interpretation of the same represented object are possible. This ambiguity would make the represented knowledge not appropriate for the product variety design. In this work, we propose a framework for the knowledge representation based on the anti-logicism. Since the samples of anti-logicist systems (e.g. multi-agents, robots) have shown an intelligent behaviour without a representation based on logics, we use the principles the anti-logicism to propose our knowledge representation framework. A knowledge representation framework that allows to connect the customer requirements to the manufacturing process parameters is proposed. The core feature of the models based on this framework is the non-ambiguity. Indeed, each piece of knowledge that composes the model can be interpreted in one unique way. This feature allows the perfect collaboration between customer, product engineers and process engineering during the variety design stage. Once the pieces of knowledge coming from different domains are integrated in one model, the framework explains how to generate alternatives of product-process variety by starting from a given customer set. Finally a criterion to compare the different generated alternatives of product-process variety is proposed. A method to instantiate the framework on a 3D CAD has been developed. Moreover, a prototype that uses the knowledge model along with a mathematical solver to propose the best variety has been developed. The impact of the framework on the selection process and on the design process of a customisable product (i.e. water coil) is tested. The test of the instantiation and the prototype allows to show the advantages and the limit of the proposals
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Wang, Chun-Yen. "Knowledge-Based Design: Networked and Visualized Knowledge for Improved Product Development." The Ohio State University, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1394804762.
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Sonne, Anne-Mette. "Knowledge sharing in international product development teams /." Aarhus, 2006. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/539961329.pdf.
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Herbas, Jose Antonio Mercado. "Capturing Architectural Knowledge of Software Product Lines." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Sektionen för datavetenskap och kommunikation, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-5206.
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The architecture of a software system is defined by significant decisions that drive the way in which the software is designed implemented and maintained. In the context of software product lines, these decisions will determine the design of an architec- ture that provides the software with the ability to be configured for different product variants and extended to accommodate future requirements. Although, variability models describe the different configurations of current and fu- ture products that the product line supports, the knowledge of how the architecture was designed to support variations of a product in space and time exists only in the architects’ mind or remains implicit in architectural models. This thesis argues that the knowledge found in architectural models and design rationale can be used to facilitate the derivation of product variants and the evolution of the product line. To support this notion, we propose the AKinSPL method for capturing the architec- tural knowledge in software product lines. The method is founded on the factors that architects take into consideration when designing the architecture, and a meta-model that represents the mental models and processes architects follow during the creation of a product line architecture. To validate the concepts of AKinSPL, its guidelines were mapped to activities of the PuLSE-DSSA methodology and new artifacts were created to capture architectural knowledge on the basis of those guidelines. Next, it was applied to capture the archi- tectural knowledge of an embedded software system for automatic control of agricul- tural equipment. The results showed that diagrams augmented with design rationale enable a faster understanding of the purpose of the architectural models. Similarly, the prescriptions of the architecture with respect to the implementation are conveyed more easily.jmercadoh@gmail.com Tel: +4916099058545
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Richtnér, Anders. "Balancing knowledge creation : examining organizational slack and knowledge creation in product development." Doctoral thesis, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm, Management av Innovation och Produktion (T), 2004. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hhs:diva-533.
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Over the last few years there has been a downturn in business. As a response, many companies have initiated various downsizing activities – often on a short-term financial basis – in order to improve the competitive position of the company. Yet, at the same time, innovation is often cited as the key to long-term success by the very same companies. The central problem examined in this book is whether downsizing and innovation are compatible. The problem was studied during a two year exploratory case research in six cases – selected from a well-defined reference population consisting of 37 companies – facing the exact challenge of simultaneously downsizing and trying to sustain its high level of innovation. The simple answer found in the study is yes. Companies can simultaneously downsize and still maintain a high level of innovation, but it is difficult and challenging and it depends on the company’s ability to handle the knowledge creation process. So what is needed? Create an understanding in the company, at all levels, that balancing knowledge creation – the ability to share and transfer knowledge – is one of the most important tasks in order to remain innovative over time. This is done by building a commitment to knowledge creation. This commitment is achieved through making knowledge creation a visible and central element of the strategic intent, and organizing the company so that ideas can be generated and generalized. Examples of activities include: At an organizational level there is a need to create boundary spanning activities to facilitate knowledge creation between various part of the organization, but also to other organizations. At a top management level shared visions and values need to be created; exemplified in words and action. Important is that the top management not get involved into micro-management. Avoid cutting-down on initial activities – where visualization and brainstorming are in focus – in projects aiming for innovation, as these activities are the foundations the rest of the project. This book is useful for those who are faced with the challenge of finding a balance between short-term activities, often focusing on downsizing, and the more long-term activity of being innovative.Diss. Stockholm : Handelshögskolan, 2004
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Sharif, Syed Ahsan Mechanical & Manufacturing Engineering Faculty of Engineering UNSW. "Development of an enterprise knowledge base (EKB) framework for new product development (NPD) in customer order driven engineering (CODE) environment." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, 2006. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/24260.
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It is widely believed that with the transition from the industrial to information-based economics, organizational knowledge has emerged as the single most critical resource at both macro and micro levels, which promotes the creation, sharing, and leveraging of the organization???s knowledge in current Customer Order Driven Engineering (CODE) environment. Insufficient knowledge management, hence lack of a structured Enterprise Knowledge Base (EKB) in a CODE environment, whilst involved in New Product Development (NPD) process may result in several problems resulting in creating less successful products. This research establishes an ???Enterprise Knowledge Base (EKB) framework??? with focus on the Product, Process and Organizational issues related to the NPD process. The framework has three major stages, namely ???Knowledge Acquisition???, ???Knowledge Organizing??? and ???Knowledge Validating???. Various frameworks/methods/models are developed as steps for each of these stages. The framework may increase the effectiveness of product and process development as well as enterprise competitiveness through developing a system architecture to understand, analyse and map organisational, operational activities and business objectives; and increasing the ability of an organisation to establish an integrated partnerships to share efforts on the design, manufacture and delivery of products. In knowledge acquisition stage, a ???Knowledge Capture framework??? and the ???Relationship matrices??? are developed to analyse and link the generic knowledge items of a NPD process in concurrent engineering environment. Among the relationship matrices, Task versus Task (Design Structure Matrix - DSM) matrix is comprehensively explored and decomposed to structure and link several processes at different levels for effective representation of the overall enterprise representation. In knowledge organizing stage, the acquired knowledge (important relations identified in the Task versus Task matrices) is represented in the form of ???Questionnaires???. Best practices gathered from several manufacturing firms in NPD in CODE have also been used as knowledge resource base for the Questionnaires. For grouping and validation of these Questionnaires, an ???Assessment Model??? is developed, which consists of five performance indicators of the organization namely ???Marketing???, ???Technical???, ???Financial???, ???Resource Management???, and ???Project Management???. Industry applications are carried out in two Australian Manufacturing Companies for the validation of the acquired knowledge. Two tests are carried out; in order to assess the sensitivity of question categories followed by another test to observe whether the model can accurately display the overall performance of the company in the five categories of NPD phases. These two tests have identified possible improvement areas in the NPD process of manufacturing organizations involved in the validation phase. Up to 80% of the findings of the EKB framework and assessment model were found to reflect the actual practices of the organizations.
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Parisi, Luca. "A Knowledge Flow as a Software Product Line." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2016. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/12217/.
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Costruire un "data mining workflow" dipende almendo dal dataset e dagli obiettivi degli utenti. Questo processo è complesso a causa dell'elevato numero di algoritmi disponibili e della difficoltà nel scegliere il migliore algoritmo, opportunamente parametrizzato. Di solito, i data scientists usano tools di analisi per decidere quale algoritmo ha le migliori performance nel loro specifico dataset, confrontando le performance fra i diversi algoritmi. Lo scopo di questo progetto è mettere le basi a un sistema software che porta verso la giusta direzione la costruzione di tali workflow, per trovare il migliore a seconda del dataset degli utenti e dei loro obiettivi.
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Crabbe, Anthony. "Product design and development through knowledge transfer collaborations." Thesis, Nottingham Trent University, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.441489.
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Rundquist, Jonas. "Outsourcing and knowledge integration in new product development." Doctoral thesis, Luleå, 2009. http://pure.ltu.se/ws/fbspretrieve/3373110.
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CIRILO, ELDER JOSE REIOLI. "SUPPORTING HETEROGENEOUS CONFIGURATION KNOWLEDGE OF SOFTWARE PRODUCT LINES." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2012. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=28802@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROCONSELHO NACIONAL DE DESENVOLVIMENTO CIENTÍFICO E TECNOLÓGICO
Softwares personalizados para as necessidades de um cliente proveem vantagem competitiva quando comparados aos softwares de proposito geral. Linhas de produtos de softwares tem como objetivo a produção de produtos personalizados a partir de um conjunto de features reutilizáveis. É conhecido que o reuso sistemático de features potencialmente leva a ganhos significativos como rápida produção de software a um baixo custo e com maior qualidade. Na prática, a construção de linhas de produtos de softwares empresariais pode se tornar uma tarefa arriscada e sujeita a erros quando se leva em consideração o uso das técnicas atuais de implementação de features. O desenvolvimento de linhas de produtos de software empresariais de fato requer a convergência coordenada de várias visões (ex., especialistas de domínio, projetistas de interface, e desenvolvedores). Neste caso, cada participante do processo de desenvolvimento tem uma linguagem particular para resolver o problema específico a sua especialidade. Os desafios para integração de diferentes linguagens, evitando uma potencial cacofonia, é o problema do conhecimento de configuração heterogêneo. Nesta tese, nos examinamos as dificuldades atuais na especificação do conhecimento de configuração heterogêneo e como solução nos propomos a noção de Linguagens de Modelagem do Conhecimento do Domínio (LMCD). O propósito das LMCDs é evidenciar os conceitos do domínio e suas interfaces de programação, o que ajuda reduzir o ofuscamento do código fonte e aumentar a compreensão. Além disso, evidenciando os conceitos específicos de domínio, somos aptos a prevenir inconsistências em produtos pela detecção de erros em toda a linha de produto de software. Outro resultado deste trabalho de pesquisa é GenArchPlus, uma ferramenta extensível que suporta de forma flexível a incorporação de LMCDs na engenharia de linhas de produtos de softwares tradicional. Nos enfatizamos os benefícios da ferramenta, incluindo simplicidade, expressividade, e a capacidade de ser independente de qualquer tecnologia de implementação do domínio. Finalmente, nos ilustramos e avaliamos o uso de LMCDs em três diferentes linhas de produtos de software.
Customer-specific software can provide a competitive advantage compared to general-purpose software. A software product line (SPL) aims at tailoring customer-specific products from a set of reusable features. It is well known that systematic reuse of features potentially leads to significant gains such as faster production with low costs and high quality. In practice, building enterprise software product lines might become a laborious and error-prone task when we take into account the use of current implementation techniques. Successful development of modern enterprise software product lines requires the convergence of multiple views (e.g., domain experts, interface designers, and developers), which are usually managed via domain-specific concepts. In this case, each participant of the development process has a particular working language to solve specific problems to its expertise. The challenge of integrating these differences into the engineering process, avoiding the potential cacophony of multiple different languages, is the heterogeneous configuration knowledge problem. In this thesis, we examine the current shortcomings on the specification of heterogeneous configuration knowledge and as a solution we propose the notion of Domain Knowledge Modeling Languages (DKMLs). The purpose of DKMLs is to put in evidence the domain concepts and their programming interfaces, which help to reduce source code obfuscation and increase feature comprehension. Moreover, evidencing the domain-specific concepts, we are also able to prevent inconsistencies on products by detecting errors in the entire software product line. Another result of this research is the GenArchPlus, an extensible tool that supports the flexible incorporation of DKMLs in traditional software product line engineering. We emphasize the benefits of GenArchPlus, including simplicity, expressiveness, and being framework independent. Finally, we illustrate and evaluate the use of DKMLs in three different product lines.
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Eslami, Mohammad H. "Knowledge integration with customers in collaborative product developmentproject." Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Projekt, innovationer och entreprenörskap, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-133964.
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Driven by rapid technological developments, greater customer expectations, and increased product complexity,product development processes increasingly rely on the integration of dispersed specialist knowledge.Consequently, many industrial firms are changing the way they approach product development. Productdevelopment increasingly relies on knowledge integration across firm boundaries. Customers are one of the mostindispensable sources of knowledge, and their knowledge needs to be integrated during product development.However, little is known about the processes and mechanisms used to integrate customer knowledge in productdevelopment.Therefore, firms must devise processes and mechanisms that support knowledge integration withcustomers. This thesis aims to investigate knowledge integration with customers in collaborative productdevelopment. The work described in this thesis combines a case study with a survey approach. More specifically, five casestudies were conducted at three industrial manufacturing firms. Data were collected in 46 interviews, along withinformal discussions, workshops, and secondary material. The case studies revealed the role of knowledgeintegration, knowledge integration mechanisms, and the importance of contextual factors related to the customer’stechnical capability, and the locus of initiative for the product development project. A cross-sectional survey wasperformed in order to ascertain the role of knowledge integration and its effect on innovation performance and theeffect of firms and customers’ technical capability and locus of initiative on knowledge integration withcustomers. The survey study generated 216 responses from firms operating in the Swedish manufacturingindustry. This thesis consists of a compiled summary and five appended papers. The results in these provide the basis formodelling knowledge integration with customers. The findings confirm that integrating knowledge withcustomers in product development is associated with better innovation performance. Further, the results point tothe dynamic characteristics of knowledge integration in product development processes. More specifically, firmstend to apply different combinations of mechanisms in different phases, depending on the intended content of theknowledge contribution of the customer and the requirements of each phase in the development process. Inaddition, the degree of technical capability, internal integration capability, and locus of initiative are importantfactors influencing knowledge integration processes. This thesis sheds new light on collaborative productdevelopment with customers by demonstrating that knowledge, and particularly the integration of knowledgeacross firm boundaries, is a central property of product development. The study focuses on industrial andmanufacturing firms, complementing current perspectives on the role of customers in other sectors. In thisparticular sector, complexity and system-wide implications need to be resolved together with customers throughknowledge integration activities. An important implication of the thesis is that firms need to devise mechanismsfor knowledge integration with customers, and be prepared to redevise these as the firm progresses through theproduct development phases.
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Mishra, Karen Eileen. "An integrated knowledge framework for industrial product-costing." Thesis, Cranfield University, 2009. http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/3789.
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Product-costing is recognised as being erroneous. This thesis examined the background to this inaccuracy through the undertaking of case studies in a range of industrial contexts, in particular the automotive and aerospace industries. Initial research and analysis of the costing literature identified distinctive engineering and economic perspectives underpinning the process. The thesis argues partly that it is the emphasis on these positions and the inadequate attention to human and cultural factors, such as communication, that have contributed to deficient costing processes. To address this a second phase of research was undertaken along side an analysis of human factors literature, to establish where and how qualitative changes might be made to improve organisational product-costing. Social and environmental issues were observed as being ubiquitous to the costing process generically; and subsequently needed to be considered on an interdependent basis alongside the physical, explicit components. The thesis presents an integrated cost-knowledge framework (ICKF), derived from the combined findings of industrial examinations, coupled with cost and cultural literatures. The research phases originally produced six main themes, which referred to the primary concerns correlated to the process, both physically and humanistically; they included issues surrounding: Resource, Data / Information, Comprehension and Training needs. These cost-themes directly related to the cost-knowledge framework. The latter comprises of eight identified knowledge types, recognised to be essential in compiling a cost; all of which are interlinked, incorporating: Costing Process knowledge; knowledge of Design, Materials, Risk, the Product, and Manufacturing Process, all in juxtaposition with Communication and Organisational Cultural knowledge. Hence the themes and knowledge framework focused on an amalgamated costing perception, of both the implicit and explicit aspects of the process. This lead to a question of the lateral dissemination of this Industrial Integrated Cost-Knowledge Framework, ICKF, via proposed costfocused training. In order to develop costing in this broader, inclusive context the training was designed to tackle softer, ‘social’ and ‘human issues’ by incorporating them within the programme, fused with the tangible, technical components of the cost-process. With research participation constituting 25 international organisations, the industrial implementation of the ICKF via targeted, specifically formulated training will assist in addressing the challenges currently experienced within the process of product-costing.
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Chang, Han Chao. "Managing new product development : exploring the relationships between organisational knowledge structure and knowledge conversion under the moderating effect of strategy." Thesis, Southampton Solent University, 2008. http://ssudl.solent.ac.uk/571/.
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The aim of this study was to examine the effectiveness of cross-functional knowledge conversion within Taiwanese high-technology small and medium-sized enterprise's (SME) new product development (NPD) teams. An analysis of 107 Taiwanese high-technology SMEs' management characteristics found a complex knowledge structure is better adopted for cross-functional knowledge conversion during the NPD period than existing or simple knowledge structure models. In addition, a Processual strategy moderated the relationships between organisational knowledge structures and four-all steps within knowledge conversion to knowledge transfer; in contrast, Classical strategy was shown only to have moderated effects during the planning and developing stage of the NPD period. Following Blackler's (1995) organisational theory, this study also found the socialisation and externalisation stages require both knowledge features from communication-intensive organisation and symbolic-analyst-dependent organisation within the NPD team's knowledge conversion. Knowledge features from a knowledge-routinised organisation are required at the combination stage; and finally, the knowledge features from an expert-dependent organisation are required at the internalisation stage. Observed strategies can be categorised as being Classical or Processual oriented (Whittington, 1993). This study describes how the strategy moderates the relationship between the organisational knowledge structures and the four knowledge-creation steps, socialisation, externalisation, combination and internalisation for NPD teams. Results showed that the requirement upon strategy differed among stages within the NPD period. During the transfer process, Processual strategy moderated the relationships between organisational knowledge structures and steps within conversion to knowledge transfer during the planning, developing, marketing and commercialisation stages of the NPD period even the negative moderating effects showed in some stages. In contrast, Classical strategy was shown only to have negative moderating effects during the planning and developing stage. Survey results also showed that the highly formalised communication model and periodic meetings advocated by Song et al (1996 & 2002) were gradually replaced by a bounded transfer and less formalised approach. However this study does not find that a consistent approach to strategy, using either PS or CS is likely to smooth the NPD process between marketing and R & D in high technology Taiwanese firms. It is possible that other schools, such as the Evolutionary or Systemic schools suggested by Whittington may fit more closely than the two tested in this study; and this will be the topic of further investigation. However, it is clear that different stages require contradictory processes and outcome routines; thus it is likely that conflict and inconsistency is actually the normal by-product of successful NPD's knowledge conversion.
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Manakitsirisuthi, Thitiya. "A knowledge management system for product End-Of-Life : Application to electronic product recycling." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012LYO22006/document.
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Aujourd’hui, la compétition croissante, l'expansion des marchés et les progrès de la technologie engendrent un raccourcissement du cycle de vie des processus de développement des produits afin d’en améliorer les performances en termes de délai, coût et qualité. Ce raccourcissement du cycle de vie a engendré un accroissement des volumes de déchet généré et des conséquences que cela peut avoir sur l’environnement. Au niveau de l’Union européenne, des directives ont été introduites, tels que la gestion des déchets d'équipements électriques et électroniques (WEEE), la restriction de l'utilisation de certaines substances dangereuses dans les équipements électriques et électroniques (RoHS) et les directives pour le traitement des batteries usagées (Battery); ces directives permettent de limiter l'utilisation et le recyclage des substances dangereuses nocives pour la santé et pour l'environnement.Ces nouvelles réglementations et normes, permettant de gérer de manière efficace les retours et la fin de vie des produits (recovery process), ont été mises en place afin d'obliger les entreprises à assumer leurs responsabilités en termes de gestion des produits en fin de vie. Certaines entreprises ont montré que les produits recyclés ou réutilisés peuvent être une source supplémentaire de revenu (recyclage des matériaux, ou réutilisation des composants après démontage) dans le processus de fabrication.Ces connaissances liées à la performance environnementale (au niveau des processus de conception, de production, de transport, d’entreposage, de récupération…) devraient êtres saisies, évaluées et capitalisées dans des bases de connaissances afin d’être prisent en compte durant les différents phases du cycle de vie des produits.Nos travaux de recherche proposent donc de développer une architecture de gestion des connaissances (Knowledge Management Architecture) basée sur un Système Multi-Agents. L’objectif est de proposer un système qui met l'accent sur les concepts de « durabilité des produits et des cycles de vie », en établissant des liens entre des Agents Logiciels détenteurs de connaissances liées à la réglementation environnementale et les Systèmes d’Information de type PLM. Ces interconnexions permettront aux décideurs de prendre en compte les impacts environnementaux dans leurs décisions et ceci à chaque phase du cycle de vie des produitsThe increasing of competition, expanding markets and advanced technology create shorten lifecycle and the development process to improve product performance in terms of time, cost and quality. These shorten products lifecycle have led to increase volumes of waste generation and consequence impact to environment. EU directives have been introduced, such as Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE), Restriction of the use of certain Hazardous Substances in electrical and electronic equipment (RoHS) and guidelines for the treatment of waste batteries (Battery), these directives are used to handle the hazardous substances which are harmful to human health and the environment.These regulations and standards have been put in place to force companies take their responsibilities on managing their products when reach to the end of life. Some companies have found that the returned product can be recycled or reused as an additional source of income (material recycling, or reuse of components after disassembly) in the manufacturing process.Knowledge related to the environmental performance (in terms of process design, production, transportation, storage, etc.) should be captured, evaluated and stored in knowledge base in order to share between users in different phases of the product lifecycle.Therefore, this research proposes a Knowledge Management Architecture based on a Multi-Agent System approach. The objective of this work is to propose a system that focuses on the concept of "sustainability” of products lifecycle by establishing the link between agents, who hold knowledge related to the environmental performances, and PLM system. The connection encourages companies considering the environmental impacts in their decision making at every stage of product lifecycle
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Ganesh, Koushik, and Kumar Prithivraj Pravin. "Mapping of development process for Tacit knowledge transfer in Product development organization : Knowledge management in change managent." Thesis, Tekniska Högskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, JTH, Produktutveckling, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-35348.
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The thesis is focused on developing a set of work standards or framework to the company, Isaberg Rapid which has changed its parent company and because of it lost many of its experienced employees. Subsequently a lot of implicit knowledge is lost along with the employees, which later became evident when challenges recurred in production. The aim of the research project is to create a proof methodology to avoid this loss by storing this tacit knowledge for any references, even if the employees involved with the product are lost.
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Xiao, Wenli. "Essays on knowledge management." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/50129.
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For many firms, particularly those operating in high technology and competitive markets, knowledge is cited as the most important strategic asset to the firm, which significantly drives its survival and success. Knowledge management (KM) impacts the firm's ability to develop process features that reduce manufacturing costs, product designs with the features and functionality to match consumer demand, and time to market. Unfortunately, many firms lack an understanding of how to develop and exploit knowledge capabilities for success. In this thesis I develop a rich and multifaceted understanding of how KM strategies lead to successful outcomes for a firm. The thesis comprises three essays, described below. The first essay (Chapter 2) examines how volume-based learning influences the relationship between a buyer and supplier in a two-period Stackelberg game. Three types of knowledge management practices are considered. First, in contrast to the literature, I recognize that knowledge accumulated from current in-house production contributes to the buyer's future product and process development efforts. Second, I allow the supplier to invest in integration process improvement (a form of knowledge development) to reduce the buyer's integration cost. Therefore, the supplier has two mechanisms to impact the buyer's demand: price and process improvement. Lastly, both the buyer and supplier benefit from volume-based learning that reduces their respective production costs. I provide conditions under which the buyer partially outsources component demand as opposed to fully outsourcing or fully producing in-house. In addition, I identify conditions for which the supplier's price and investment in integration process improvement can serve either as substitutes or complements. In the second essay (Chapter 3), I consider knowledge development (KD) strategies in a new product development (NPD) project with three stages of activities conducted concurrently: prototyping, pilot line testing, and production ramp-up. I capture the link between successive stages of engineering activities by recognizing that knowledge accumulated in one stage and transferred to another stage improves the efficiency of knowledge development in the recipient stage. A Base Model and two extensions are introduced that differ in the manner in which knowledge transfer (KT) occurs. I find that the NPD manager pursues different dynamic strategies for KD in each stage of the project. In addition, I explore how the effectiveness of KD and the returns to KT impact the optimal strategies adopted in each stage. In the third essay (Chapter 4), I introduce a dynamic model to explore the impact of KT on a manager?s pursuit of an existing product improvement project and a new product development project. These two projects consume costly knowledge development resources. A key feature of the model is the characterization of the knowledge transfer process from the new product development project to the existing product improvement project. As a result of KT, the ability of the existing product improvement project to generate new knowledge is enhanced. However, the ability of the new product to generate expected net revenue when it is released to the marketplace is reduced due to the loss of proprietary knowledge. I obtain dynamic optimal strategies of KD in both projects and the optimal strategy of KT from the new product development project to the existing product improvement project.
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Kaufmann, Bruno. "The Reverse Product Cycle Model Revisited: Co-produced solutions in knowledge-intensive business services." Thesis, KTH, Entreprenörskap och Innovation, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-51487.
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Services and innovation are the drivers of today’s economy, yet, there is a lack on academic literature on what matter the interactions between these two forces. On that sense, Barras, in 1986, established one of the most representative models regarding innovation within service firms. The “Reverse Product Cycle” (RPC) argue that service firms, trigged by IT advancements, would follow an opposite innovation evolution if compared to the classic manufactured view of novelty progress. Besides representing an important breakthrough on the services differentiation from the predominant industry view, it was replete of problematic that are now reinforced by the present high dynamic environment. On that present scenario, the role knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) play is of crucial importance to innovation dissemination within a diversity of industries. It features are intrinsically related to tailored co-produced solutions to specific clients requirements that, by the case study of an ongoing KIBS shared solution development, seems to bring back the innovation pattern defended by the RPC model. The present study aims to analyze this hypothesis and revisit the RPC model through the optics of current KIBS innovation process.
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Chi, Jeffrey C. (Jeffrey Chien-Chuen). "The knowledge evolution framework : a knowledge management perspective on the impact of knowledge segregation on product development projects." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8621.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2001.Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-216).
Developing offerings faster, better and cheaper than competitors has become critical to success. In response to these commercial pressures, many industries have shifted from a sequential, functional development paradigm to a concurrent, team-based paradigm. Increasing the concurrence and cross-functional development, however, also dramatically increases the dynamic complexity of development projects. This is added complexity on top of the increasing technological complexity of offerings. Whilst traditional models based on tools such as the CPM and PERT have been used for the planning and management of such projects successfully in the past, the increase in complexity has shown that such tools are less capable of planning and predicting the outcome of projects. This is due to the dynamic nature of projects and the task-based approach used. Recent research using dynamic simulation tools such as system dynamics have indicated reasons that project duration and cost have been consistently underestimated. The differentiation is attributed to the ability of dynamic simulation tools to capture the iterative nature of work. Existing research has, however, concentrated on iteration as a result of errors, quality control and shifting targets. Although these factors do contribute to iteration, they seem almost exogenous factors where independent policies can be used to mitigate the need for iteration. Yet all texts on design and product development describe the process as an iterative one. There must, therefore, be some endogenous factors that result in an inherent need for iteration. With the level of complexity of projects, specialization becomes necessary. As a result, no individual within a project has 'lull" knowledge about the project and its current state of development. In other words, the information and knowledge is segregated to different parts of the project organization. This research proposes a shift towards a knowledge-evolution paradigm and uses it to investigate the impacts of such knowledge segregation on the performance of product development projects. This proposed framework acts, in part, to provide management levers and measurements in managing the knowledge within product development projects. These are measurements that the traditional task-based frameworks cannot directly provide. A dynamic simulation model of a development project with multiple persons was built using the system dynamics methodology. The model portrays the segregation of knowledge and studies its impact on the rate of development and iteration. The model was applied to projects with a scope defined by the Delta Design Game. Though simple, the Delta Design game provides the boundaries in understanding the interactions amongst participants in a typical process and has been used in the past primarily to demonstrate this aspect of design. The model simulation bore results that closely resembled real life behavior of the Delta Design project. The model was also applied to the investigation of differing policies for improved project performance. These policies include strategies involving conservatism in design, preemptive measures against iteration and reduction of knowledge segregation through the decoupling of the knowledge processes. The model structure provides insight as to the effectiveness of these strategies. The research finds that rework and iteration happens inherently in development projects and its prevalence is interwoven into the fabric of the system architecture and project organization structure. Finally, this research has shown value in the knowledge evolution paradigm by gathering insights through which task-based models could not. In so doing so, it is shown that there is value in developing this conc
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Wernsing, Tara Sallie 1968. "Product knowledge and pictorial information effects on automatic processing." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278199.
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This paper expands the study of automatic processing in the marketing literature. An empirical study was designed to test for automatic inference making due to pictorial or verbal advertisements and prior product knowledge. The theory developed in this thesis suggests that certain factors, high product knowledge and pictorial processing, will result in the accumulation of information in memory. This, in turn, yields easier processing of new information, which signifies a reduction in the attention and effort needed for processing the new information. Finally, the reduction of effort reflects a decrease in the amount of time needed for processing. Therefore, response latencies served as a direct measure of automatic processing in this thesis. Findings indicated that pictures in ads are likely to result in more automatic inference making than verbal information alone. Therefore, automaticity has the potential to explain some of the information processing that occurs in advertising and marketing.
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Cheung, Wai Ming. "Distributed and collaborative product development and manufacturing knowledge management." Thesis, Durham University, 2007. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/2489/.
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A major challenge facing industry nowadays is the adoption of current information sharing and collaboration technologies for early design and manufacturing phases to enable collaboration for product development through information distribution. Furthermore, product development process displays ever growing complexity and dynamic behaviour due to both increasing product complexity and distributive and collaborative engineering demands. in order to overcome these issues, advanced strategic corporate alliances must share knowledge, expertise and resources in an increasingly competitive global market. The principal hypothesis of the research is that, at present there is a disconnection between the early stages of communicating design concepts and potential manufacturing scenarios which could be bridged by using internet-based Product Data Management (PDM) systems with techniques and methods for design conceptualisation, aggregate factory modelling and manufacturing knowledge management. The main objective of this research is therefore to investigate and develop methods for the effective management of the internet-based process of communicating new product requirements and manufacturing performance evaluations. In particular, the investigation is focused on the early stages of product development throughout the product life cycle using PDM, Enterprise Resource Planning systems and Web-based technologies. The tools used to explore the feasibility are the utilisation of Web-centric supporting technologies such as extensible Markup Language, Resource Description Framework and ontologies for manufacturing knowledge management. The Unified Modelling Language and Object- Oriented based Java Programming Language are used to further develop and facilitate an early process planning evaluation system. In addition, a new framework using Peer- to-Peer technology as a subset of the product development integration architecture to support smaller companies and large corporations has also been developed. This thesis presents the contributions and the development of novel methods which include: 1. The aggregate manufacturing models, 2. New methods in relation to knowledge management of design and manufacturing,3. A client/server product development integration architecture, and 4. A decentralised production network for smaller and larger companies using 'open source' solutions. These will facilitate the communication of early design and product development within a distributed and collaborative environment. Two case studies are presented to verify the demonstrations. The first case study replicates a centralised client/server environment supporting the design of steel panel bridges for rapid assembly on-site. The second case study is focused on creating a virtual enterprise collaboration to compare the applications of a centralised PDM and decentralised open source solutions. Overall results have indicated that: 1. The opportunity of early collaboration in product design can be maximised, prevent poor decisions, enable the design to be right first time, and2. Elimination of bottlenecks in bandwidth and resources, reduce centralised administration cost and empowering of collaborators within networks to control the knowledge they create. Therefore, with proper technologies, methods and techniques to share knowledge, expertise and resources, can enhanced the three critical factors in product development, namely: reduction of cost, time-to-market and quality of product.
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Zheng, Liyu. "Knowledge Representation and Decision Support for Managing Product Obsolescence." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30178.
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Fast moving technologies have caused high-tech components to have shortened life cycles, rendering them obsolete quickly. Technology obsolescence creates significant problems for product sectors that use components that are only available for a short period of time for manufacture and maintenance of long field-life systems. Technology obsolescence can make design changes of systems prohibitively expensive, and results in high life cycle costs of systems. While the impact and pervasiveness of obsolescence problems are growing, existing tools and solutions are lacking the needed information and knowledge to do much more than focus on reactively managing obsolescence. Current methods and tools are limited by data conflicts and data inexplicitness, incompleteness, and inconsistency.
In response to the drawbacks of current tools, comprehensive knowledge representation that allows information sharing, reuse, and collaboration on obsolescence issues across different organizations is required. Further, decision making tools that can support proactive and strategic obsolescence management are needed. The purpose of this research is to establish an ontology-based knowledge representation scheme for information sharing, reuse, and collaboration on obsolescence issues, and develop decision making models to support proactive and strategic management for overall cost savings in managing obsolescence.
Three primary aspects of this research are investigated. First, ontologies for obsolescence knowledge representation are developed in a systematic way with the use of UML diagrams. The generality of the developed ontology is demonstrated with distinct examples. Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages (DMSMS) obsolescence provides the basis for this study. Second, an ontology-based hybrid approach for integrating heterogeneous data resources in existing obsolescence management tools is proposed. Third, decision support models are developed and formalized, and include the obsolescence forecasting method for proactively managing obsolescence, and the mathematical models to determine the optimal design refresh plan to minimize the product life cycle cost for strategic obsolescence management. Finally, the design of the obsolescence management information system is provided along with a system evaluation methodology.
Ultimately, the research contributes to the field of knowledge representation as well as design for managing product obsolescence.Ph. D.
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Levett, Gavin Peter. "A knowledge management methodology for a product development environment." Thesis, Cranfield University, 2001. http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/10689.
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The subject of this Engineering Doctorate research is Knowledge Management (KM) which is a philosophy for improving core business activities of a organisation based upon the examination and development of its knowledge-base. A company knowledgebase is made up of information that is generated from critical activities, e.g. product development, marketing, sales, etc. and by the employees, customers and partners that representthecreative,problem-solvingcapabilitiesofaorganisation. This research provides the automotive industry with a practical methodology that translates the conceptual ideas of Knowledge Management (KM) into a working programme with defined objectives, using industry terminology. The research also developed a supporting analysis methodology that enables a effective examination of the root causes of K behaviour, which spans technical and cultural boundaries. This happens through identifying the factors that impact upon defined KM metrics. These factors can have many definitions, e.g. a software system. The analysis identifies the key influencing factors within a working environment. The research benets are felt when the ground-level drivers of KM behaviour are improved through a link to a appropriate K strategy. The K strategy may emphasise organisational cultural changes or IT changes or both in a endeavour to improveinnovation,reducebusinesscostsandreducetimetomarketofnewproducts. A validation case study was undertaken within the design centre of a leading automotive manufacturer. This exercise implemented the pilot programme and the company working environment was successfully analysed. A series of recommendations were made that would improve Knowledge Management for the company. Finally, a series of further research issues were developed that provide a wider perspective for the contribution of the thesis so that greater be net scan beat tributed to its implementation.
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Distanont, A. (Anyanitha). "Knowledge transfer in requirements engineering in collaborative product development." Doctoral thesis, Oulun yliopisto, 2013. http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9789526200545.
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Abstract At present, collaborative strategies are an important part of developing the capabilities to be able to compete in the 21st Century since knowledge or innovations cannot develop entirely within a single firm. Collaboration provides invaluable resources that a firm cannot create through knowledge transfer mechanisms. The purpose of this doctoral dissertation is to enhance understanding of knowledge transfer in requirements engineering in the context of collaborative product development. The research is qualitative by nature and utilises the case study methodology. Data collection was conducted through interviews and surveys with informants in high-tech enterprises. The results indicate that collaboration in product development is very important and acts as a means of obtaining external resources, especially knowledge. However, collaboration is not an easy practice; it involves many challenges. In order to improve the practice of collaboration, it is necessary to manage and leverage the transfer of knowledge. According to the results, in order to increase the effectiveness of knowledge transfer over enterprise interfaces, each knowledge type needs to be transferred through the suitable transfer channel at the right time. The results also indicate that the individual relationships among buyers and suppliers are an essential element for long-term collaboration and common platforms or tools need to be developed to support collaborative product development over enterprise interfacesTiivistelmä Kiristyvän kilpailun tilanteessa yritykset etsivät keinoja tehostaakseen toimintaansa. Yksi keino tähän on yhteistyökumppanina toimivien yritysten hyödyntäminen tuotekehityksessä. Yhteistyökumppanien hyödyntämisellä yritykset pyrkivät muun muassa tukemaan innovatiivisuutta ja täydentämään tuotekehityksessä tarvittavia kyvykkyyksiä. Tähän pyritään hankkimalla lisää resursseja, erityisesti tietämystä ja osaamista, jota yrityksellä ei itsellään ole tai joka on ulkoistettu aiemmin. Tässä väitöskirjassa perehdytään yritysyhteistyötä hyödyntävään tuotekehitystoimintaan ja tutkimuksen tavoitteena on lisätä ymmärrystä osaamisen siirrosta erityisesti vaatimusten hallinnan prosessissa. Tämä väitöskirjatyö on laadullinen tapaustutkimus. Tutkimuksen empiirinen aineisto on hankittu haastatteluilla ja kyselyillä korkeanteknologian yrityksistä. Tutkimustulosten mukaan yritysten välinen yhteistyö tuotekehityksessä on merkittävässä roolissa moderneissa yrityksissä. Tällöin voidaan puhua ulkopuolisten resurssien, erityisesti ulkoisen osaamisen hyödyntämisestä tuotekehityksessä. Tulosten mukaan on kuitenkin huomioitava, että yritysyhteistyö on varsin monimutkaista ja haastavaa toteuttaa. Yritysten tulee paremmin johtaa osaamisen siirtoa yhteistyökumppaneiden välillä ja panostaa osaamisen siirtoon liittyviin toimintatapoihin ja työkaluihin. Yritysten välisen osaamisen siirron tehokkuuden lisäämiseksi tulee huomioida, että erityyppinen osaaminen tulee siirtää sille ominaisen kanavan kautta juuri oikeaan aikaan. Tulosten mukaan yrityksissä toimivien henkilöiden väliset suhteet ovat keskeisessä roolissa pitkän aikavälin yritysyhteistyölle. Tukeakseen paremmin yritysyhteistyötä tuotekehityksessä yritysten tulisi kehittää yhteisiä alustoja tai työkaluja osaamisen siirtoon
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Motta, Teixeira Leopoldo. "Verification and refactoring of configuration knowledge for software product lines." Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 2010. https://repositorio.ufpe.br/handle/123456789/2323.
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Uma linha de produtos de software (LPS) é definida como um conjunto de sistemas de software que compartilham características em comum, mas que são suficientemente distintos entre si, desenvolvidos a partir de um conjunto de artefatos reusáveis. Modelos de features e configuração são usados para possibilitar a geração automática de produtos a partir destes artefatos. Um modelo de features representa o conjunto de possíveis configurações de produto de uma LPS, enquanto o modelo de configuração estabelece o mapeamento entre features e implementação. Por exemplo, associando expressões de features, na forma de proposições lógicas, a artefatos. Os benefícios de produtividade que a abordagem de LPS fornece tornam possível que uma LPS seja capaz de gerar milhares de produtos. Neste contexto, erros cometidos ao especificar o modelo de configuração podem resultar em produtos inválidos - o problema da composição segura. Este problema pode ser difícil de ser detectado manualmente, já que os modelos de features e configuração podem tornar-se muito complexos. Gerar todos os produtos de uma LPS pode não ser prático, dado que existem LPS em que é possível gerar milhares de produtos. No entanto, mesmo modelos de configuração que não permitem a geração de produtos inválidos podem ter problemas na sua estrutura interna, como complexidade e duplicação, especialmente no contexto de LPS grandes, onde sua manutenção pode se tornar difícil. Precisamos nos certificar de que não introduzimos erros ao corrigir estes problemas. Neste trabalho, é proposta uma abordagem automática de verificação de composição segura para LPS baseadas em modelos de configuração. Esta abordagem é baseada na tradução de instâncias específicas de modelos de features e configuração em lógica proposicional, usando uma teoria codificada com Alloy. O suporte ferramental fornecido pelo Alloy Analyzer auxilia a verificação. Também é proposto um catálogo de refatoramentos simples para modelos de configuração, como uma maneira de evitar erros ao corrigir problemas na estrutura interna de tais modelos. Este catálogo é formalizado usando uma teoria geral para modelos de configuração especificada com o Prototype Verification System (PVS). Nós avaliamos a abordagem de verificação usando sete versões de uma LPS, com modelos de features que possibilitam a geração de até 272 produtos. Os resultados demonstram a vantagem de usar esta abordagem ao invés de gerar todos os produtos da LPS, já que o tempo médio para compilar um único produto da LPS é maior que o tempo para analisá-la na maior das versões analisadas. Também avaliamos o catálogo de refatoramento provando consistência (soundness) dos refatoramentos propostos no provador de teoremas de PVS
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Doultsinou, Athanasia. "Service knowledge capture and re-use to support product design." Thesis, Cranfield University, 2010. http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/6277.
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A significant change is taking place in manufacturing company strategies around the globe. With new monitoring and service methods, new opportunities of product use and service provision emerge. The manufacturing companies once focused on mere product manufacture, now have started to provide ‘systemic solutions’, i.e. products combined with service packages, which are often referred to as Product-Service Systems (PSS). Currently, there is not a well-established feedback mechanism between service and design. The aim of this research is to develop a methodology to capture, represent, and re-use service knowledge to support product design. For the accomplishment of this aim an extensive literature review of the related themes to the research area took place. It was found that the feedback from service to design is fundamental for the enhancement of product performance; however, the existing literature in this area is not adequate. The industrial investigation led to the realisation that there is not an established mechanism in place to show how service knowledge (SK) can be used by designers. An in- depth investigation took place with the collaboration of, in total, four UK manufacturing companies. The author studied both the conceptual and detailed design, focusing on the design requirements (DR) and the design/service features (DF/SF) respectively. The first step was the capture of SK and its representation using Protégé software. Following this, at the conceptual design stage, SK can be re-used through the DR-SK tool. The two main purposes of the tool are the knowledge retrieval by designers, and the identification of gaps in SK. At the detailed design stage, designers can access SK through the DF-SK tool, and the developed knowledge templates. The SKaD framework was created, as a result of the amalgamation among the SKaD methodology, the knowledge templates, and the tools developed to link SK and DR, SF, and DF. Conclusively, the framework was applied on case studies within the pump manufacturing and aerospace industries, and its purpose (to aid designers accessing and re-using SK) was validated by experts within the collaborating organisations. As a result of this research’s findings, the service personnel can capture SK in a structured manner, which can then be re- used by product designers at both the conceptual and detailed design stage.
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Miller, Richard John. "New Product Development and Innovation Through Joint Knowledge Creation and Transfer in a Dyadic Supply Chain Relationship." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1272563932.
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Schulze, Anja. "Management of organizational knowledge creation in new product development projects /." [S.l. : s.n.], 2004. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/470720069.pdf.
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Maksimovic, Maksim. "Lean knowledge life cycle framework to support lean product development." Thesis, Cranfield University, 2013. http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/8263.
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This research thesis presents the development of a novel Lean Knowledge Life Cycle (LeanKLC) framework to support the transformation into a Lean Product Development (LeanPD) knowledge environment. The LeanKLC framework introduces a baseline model to understand the three dimensions of knowledge management in product development as well as its contextualisation with acclaimed LeanPD process models. The LeanKLC framework comprises 23 tasks, each accomplished in one of the seven key stages, these being: knowledge identification, previous knowledge capture, knowledge representation, knowledge sharing, knowledge integration, knowledge use and provision and dynamic knowledge capture. The rigorous research methodology employed to develop the LeanKLC framework entailed extensive data collection starting with a literature review to highlight the gap in the current body of knowledge. Additionally, industrial field research provides empirical evidence on the current industrial perspectives and challenges in managing product development knowledge. This research was part of a European FP7 project entitled Lean Product and Process Development (LeanPPD), which provided the opportunity to involve industrial collaborators in action research to support practical aspects during the LeanKLC framework development. The synthesis with the current LeanPD paradigm is accomplished by demonstrating the LeanKLC stages in two distinct streams related to the development of A3 thinking for problem solving and the development of trade-off curves to facilitate set based design at the conceptual stage. The novel LeanKLC is validated in two case studies providing the industry with detailed insights on real product development applications. In particular this research highlights that the LeanPD knowledge environment is a wide subject area that has not yet been thoroughly understood and that industry engagement in empirical research is vital in order to realise any form of LeanPD transformation.
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Chirumalla, Koteshwar. "A lightweight knowledge sharing approach for product-service systems development." Licentiate thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Innovation och Design, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-26536.
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The move towards offering product-service systems (PSS) requires the involvement of stakeholders from heterogeneous functions or companies with knowledge of the different stages of the life cycle. This challenges the way in which organizations create, share, and manage knowledge across functional and corporate boundaries. The management and reuse of knowledge within the cross-functional teams are still enormous tasks, especially when dealing with semi- structured or unstructured information, as well as with informal and tacit knowledge. The purpose is to explore how a lightweight collaborative approach can support knowledge sharing in cross-functional collaboration in the context of product-service system development. Through an empirical analysis of the knowledge management practices within cross-functional collaborative teams in the aerospace supply chain, this thesis describes the knowledge-related problems in light of the implementation of a PSS paradigm and explores how lightweight collaborative technologies can enable knowledge sharing in boundary-crossing collaborative working environments. The study adopts a qualitative research methodology whose empirical findings are based on two industrial case studies. Data have primarily been generated through interviews, focus group meetings, and survey questionnaires. The research work outlines the limitations of current knowledge management systems in capturing, managing, and reusing cross-functional knowledge in PSS development in terms of knowledge sharing, pointing to lightweight collaborative technologies as a key knowledge-sharing enabler for PSS development. Furthermore, the study elaborates upon the opportunities and challenges embedded in the lightweight concept by using SWOT analysis as well the development of several scenarios in which social, bottom-up technologies are applied in an engineering context. This approach results in the identification of promising areas for the significant impact of PSS development, such as in identifying new product opportunities, locating the right capabilities in the organization, and capturing the design intent and design rationale. These areas eventually highlight the features and requirements for effective lightweight knowledge sharing in PSS development efforts.The research work introduces Web 2.0/social software applications and methods as a bottom-up and lightweight collaborative approach for knowledge sharing in PSS development. First, the study determines that these technologies can enhance knowledge sharing by providing empowering opportunities and dynamic way of interactions for knowledge workers. Second, these technologies can improve teams’ capabilities by exploiting the network of connections through the collective creation and maintenance of shared knowledge assets with a common understanding. Such improvements will eventually enhance decision making and sense making in a global, virtual, and cross-functional team setting. Finally-and most importantly- these technologies can amplify access to individual tacit knowledge, thereby ensuring continuous organizational learning. This research work is particularly significant as the adoption of a Web 2.0/social approach in engineering collaboration is still not eminent. The thesis outlines several issues that have to be addressed from both methodological and technological perspectives before pursuing the wide adoption of lightweight tools in the areas identified.Godkänd; 2011; 20110520 (kotchi)
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HsiangWang, Tai, and 王泰翔. "On Complementary Knowledge Product Recommendation for Knowledge Commerce." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/79857364556916242451.
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碩士國立成功大學
製造資訊與系統研究所碩博士班
98
In the rapidly changing business environment, enterprises or individuals encounter more difficulties and challenges, and their encountered problems are also more complex and diverse. To sustain their competitive advantage, knowledge requirements need to be able to acquire knowledge quickly to solve their problems. Knowledge commerce (k-commerce) brings innovative thinking and profit models of knowledge assets management for enterprises. However, knowledge product is private, and search a desired knowledge product by hand form a lot of knowledge products is very time-consuming. Besides, a single knowledge product usually cannot satisfy the complex problem. Therefore, how to recommend the appropriate combination of knowledge products for satisfying customized knowledge requirement is an important issue. To overcome the above problem, this study develops a complementary knowledge product recommendation mechanism according to knowledge requesters’ requirements. At first, this study designs a structured representation model of knowledge requirement. Subsequently, this study proposes a similarity approach to match related knowledge products based on the knowledge requester’s requirement from the knowledge product ontology base. Finally, this study proposes a knowledge product combination approach using genetic algorithms to recommend the optimal combination of knowledge products according to knowledge product combination indicators. The mechanism effectively provides the desired knowledge for knowledge requester, thus facilitates successful knowledge products transactions.
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Chung, Cheng-Wei, and 蔣呈偉. "A Product Development Knowledge Creation Model on the Product Data Management SystemsA Product Development Knowledge Creation Model on the Product Data Management Systems." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/41284397396432547892.
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碩士國立高雄應用科技大學
工業工程與管理系
97
The product lifecycle has been shortening in this global competitive age, companies must efficiently manipulate all sort of data deriving from product lifecycle in order to further shorten the period of developing products; furthermore, product data management system is an essential basic system while shortening developing time. Besides, product development knowledge creation will wind up some opportunities that could benefit the companies; all companies wish to be a knowledge creation ones themselves under such circumstances. The main point of this research develops a knowledge creation model of product development process by using the PDM system as the communicated base. This research uses the Delphi method to collect the relationship between the suitable knowledge creation bar and the functions of PDM system, as well as, what are the important input data and output data in new product development stages. Finally, this research suggests a knowledge creation contracture in new product development stages which based on PDM system combining ba model and SECI model.
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TSAI, YU-HSIEN, and 蔡育憲. "Research on Product Knowledge Management in the Product Development Process." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/70899963201681522910.
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碩士國立成功大學
系統及船舶機電工程學系碩博士班
96
Recently, with the fast development of internet technology, traditional production development industry gradually implants electrical information system. Through the integration function by electrical information system, it becomes easier to manage, and eventually helps the users achieve knowledge management and make intelligent decisions. The framework of knowledge management processes builds upon the product developments. Knowledge source, knowledge creation, knowledge classification, knowledge learning, and knowledge application are the keys to knowledge management. The combination of knowledge management and the workflow in product development management system is our major information source. And then we use those gathered data during the product developments to create a product database. We also can access the data through Case Base Reason, which can be used for decision authority during the product design and process parameters. Lastly, by using the process engine we can turn the experiences we gained into a knowledge database to resolve the problems in the development process, and through FMEA to achieve preventing problems in the design and production processes. Implanting the knowledge management helps the product designers having more thoughtful consideration in exterior design and timing design while designing new products by its efficient search option. In the other hand, new designers can avoid extra cost due to parameter setting error. Overall, the implant of knowledge database can provide diagnosis and precaution to development problems, and finally save time in product development process.
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Ya-Ching, Chang, and 張雅晴. "Knowledge Source Influence on product innovation." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/67318487039204900420.
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碩士國立臺北商業大學
商學研究所
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Contents of knowledge for this study more comprehensive view of innovation, while adding two disturbing factors, to explore external knowledge sources within between product innovation and service innovation relationship. The study is based on employees of high-tech industries for the study, conducted questionnaire distributed network and recovered 296 valid questionnaires were analyzed with SPSS and PLS Positive final result of the discovery, in addition to corporate dynamic capabilities on product innovation, knowledge integration, knowledge sharing, enterprise dynamic ability to service innovation and new team members to join the new product knowledge to explain the degree of consensus interference, the internal knowledge base, knowledge creation capabilities, knowledge absorptive capacity and dynamic Capabilities on product innovation is not significant; and added after the organizational readiness, knowledge creation and knowledge sharing capacity for service innovation is not significant, the other assumptions hold. We hope this research will help companies in the process of innovation for the different options for innovative ways to profit sources, not only to reduce costs and manpower expenditures, but also the entire development process more smoothly.
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Chung, Wen-Ling, and 鍾雯玲. "The Influences of Consumer Product Knowledge Affects the Preference of Systematic Products." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/95775239231694506748.
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碩士銘傳大學
管理科學研究所
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In the past, the researches of systematic products mostly stress on the relationship of competition and collaborative between companies. However, there were short of the combination researches of the systematic products’ attributes and the behavior of consumers. This study expanded the consumer knowledge structured model of Moreau et al.（2001）in innovation continuity products and addition to the two attributes of systematic products, network externalities and complementary products to investigate how the objective products knowledge of the consumers influence the individual attribute. The experts and novices knowledge transfer model was the theory base. By the experiments and Regression of mobile—radio communication systematic products demonstrate hypothesis. The results were as follows：1、The objective knowledge of consumer would influence obviously the preference of complementary products：Expert’s preference of complementary products variety variously increase greater then novice’s. 2、The objective knowledge of consumer would influence obviously the preference of innovation continuity products. And go a further steps to prove that for continuous innovation, expert’s preference increase greater then novice’s and for discontinuity innovation, expert’s preference increase lower then novice’s.
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Chen, Yu-chiao, and 陳郁喬. "Development of a Technological Knowledge Product Valuation Method for knowledge Commerce." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/48744985787947260315.
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碩士國立成功大學
製造工程研究所碩博士班
97
In recent years, with the maturity of the Internet and on-line transaction technology, technological knowledge trading methods have been gradually transformed from traditional technological knowledge markets into electronic-based knowledge commerce (k-commerce). In the k-commerce environment, which includes a number of buyers and sellers, it is difficult to identify the actual identities and backgrounds of these buyers and sellers. Furthermore, due to the intangible nature of knowledge and asymmetric information about knowledge transactions, the value of technological knowledge products is unclear and not easily identified. To improve transaction fairness and to reduce deceptions in the Internet-based knowledge transaction environment, this study develops a decision-making support method that helps knowledge requesters to select knowledge products, and knowledge suppliers to determine knowledge price. This method estimates knowledge value based on a technological knowledge value ontology proposed by this study. This study first surveys the current status of technological valuation and analyzes the characteristics of the k-commerce environment to identify five knowledge value evaluation indicators, including developer capacity, supplier reputation, knowledge complexity, innovation, and marketable value. This study then develops assessment methods for each of these indicators. Finally, this study implements a knowledge valuation system to verify the feasibility of the proposed methods.
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Hsu, Teresa Tiaojung, and 許窕容. "Cross-Functional Collaboration, Market Knowledge, Knowledge Integration Mechanisms, Product Innovativeness, and Product Innovation Performance: A Moderated Mediation Model." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/37710951413731579643.
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博士國立臺北大學
企業管理學系
100
New product success is recognized as a principal goal to the long-term success of a firm. Product innovation performance and its antecedents thus become a leading-edge issue in new product development (NPD) literature. Reviewing from literature, many studies had suggested that cross-functional collaboration, market knowledge (including breadth, depth, tacitness, and specificity), and knowledge integration mechanisms (KIMs) are the potent drivers of product innovation performance. In addition, recent research shows that KIMs mediate the relationship between cross-functional collaboration and product innovation performance, as well as the relationship between market knowledge and product innovation performance; however, prior empirical result shows that this mediation effect seems to be rather weak for a large sample size. Thus, given both the theoretical viewpoint and the empirical evidence, this study suggests that some factors may involve within the relationships; this study then develops a moderated mediation (MOME) model to argue that such a mediating effect is moderated by product innovativeness. A sample of 261 manufacturing firms is utilized and examined by hierarchical regression analysis in this study. A moderated mediation approach show that both the effects of cross-functional collaboration and market knowledge depth on product innovation performance through the mediator (KIMs) vary in magnitude as a function of product innovativeness. Next, further examination is implemented based on prior research (Garcia & Calantone, 2002) to examine the moderating effect of product innovativeness separately from the industry perspective and from the firm perspective. The findings reveal different effects by distinct perspective of product innovativeness. These different findings signify the importance of KIMs in understanding the NPD management issues. These results also mark the significance of the distinction of product innovativeness in order to understand the mediating role of KIMs in the NPD process.
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Jao, Hai-Ping, and 饒海平. "EFFECTS OF PRODUCT KNOWLEDGE ON DESIGN DEVELOPMENT." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/s6mk58.
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碩士大同大學
工業設計學系(所)
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The designer the possible role which holds the post in the expense society, one goes to the consumer which the store purchases the commodity, two is the user which uses the product, three is some item of product inventor. Therefore the designer becomes some sign disseminator, but simultaneously also becomes other signs receiver. The designer accumulates the knowledge not only comes from the education and the training, but also accumulates in the entire expense society to each sign, namely each kind of product, understanding and cognition. The key point of this research lies in when the designer designs the product, his product knowledge, especially regard to the subject and experience-base knowledge which accumulates in the expense society, how to be applied, what to be applied for? And the knowledge varying degree whether can create the difference for application, as well as what influence on the design approaching strategy and the self- appraisal for design achievement? Different type knowledge regarding design conception development influence whether is in the degree of difference? For example, the subjective knowledge influences on the design approaching strategy more than the experience-base knowledge? It takes the electronic razor as the practical design case to observe the operation situation of the product knowledge in the design development. The research take the experiment to execute, the sampling way is the quota sampling to invite the subjects for measuring the product knowledge and choose the appropriate people to join the experiment design assignment, finally by receiving the most satisfactory sketch in the design developing process to carry on recollection interview. To obtained questionnaire, design sketch and recollection interview list for analysis. To take the integration, the descriptive statistics, the factor analysis, the cluster analysis, one-way ANOVA analysis, two-way ANOVA and the correlation analysis as the experiment data analysis tool. Experimental conclusion summary as follows: 1.About the knowledge application: there are six kinds of benefits to design for applying the experience-base , the frequency that they appear while the designer designed the products are : ” creating the expectation for product” (6%), “finding the advantage and disadvantage in the design of present product “ (8%), “ being the design reference for the component items” (8%)、” making sure the design brief “ (39%), “improving the present design” (12%) and “taking the advantage and discarding the disadvantage from the present design” (27%). The experience-based knowledge to help the designer to find the problems and needs of product ,especially to make sure the design brief , and the accumulated knowledge could be the reference for assessing suitability in design while improving the present product design, to conform the design feature necessity of existing, and let designer to know the real operation in every product feature. 2.The varying experience-based knowledge creating the difference in application the experience-based knowledge: the varying knowledge degree designers arouse the different structure of experience-based knowledge while facing the design problem, even though in the same structure of knowledge, the designers also have he different inspiration and insight for design problem along with the different knowledge degree. 3. The influence in the design development from the varying product knowledge degree: （1）The design approaching strategy: the designer’s design approaching strategy, who with the most product using experience ,is in “function” field, and the more understanding product designers’ reason for judging his design being popular is also in “function” field. But both of them with the product using experience, the “used” group is more emphasize on the “ esthetic” field than “using” field. （2）The self-appraisal for design achievement: the high degree experience-based knowledge designers have the more confidence for his design being popular in market than the low degree ones. 4.There is more influence in the experience-based knowledge than subject knowledge for the design development, such as in the design approaching strategy and the confidence for the design being popular in market, the experience-based knowledge is more influenced. 5.The higher degree of experience-base knowledge designers apply the more shaving and electronic razor using experience knowledge in design processing, and apply more experience-based knowledge in the listed popular design features of the sketch, and have more satisfaction for the design achievement. It shows the designers design the product which be used before they are more easier to be satisfied with the design achievement and have more confidence for the design being popular in market.
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Liu, Kun-Peng, and 劉坤朋. "Parametric Product Configuration and its Manufacturing Knowledge." Thesis, 2003. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/77718338713120375117.
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碩士國立高雄第一科技大學
機械與自動化工程所
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Nowadays, the ideal of agile manufacturing has become our new goal in designing and implementing a manufacturing system to cope with the competitive and changing environment in the new century. One of the remarkable features in agile manufacturing is its ability to handle a wide variation in product configuration and to quickly switch along its manufacturing process. Also, the paradigm of manufacturing has gradually shifted from 〝mass production〞 to 〝mass customization〞 Mass customization means that we should be able to manufacture the products as specified by the customers in real time, and in the same time to deliver the products as quickly and as low cost as mass production can do. For these demands, suppliers have to produce products with wide variety of configurations and their manufacturing has to be flexible, agile and low cost. Facing such a challenging situation, however, the traditional approach in representing product and manufacturing knowledge is simply too limited in power to support product configuration variation and manufacturing agility. In this paper, based on VPC, a manufacturing knowledge model was proposed to facilitate the execution control for an agile manufacturing system. The manufacturing knowledge model proposed includes the parametric models, GAMM and GAMP, for the modeling of manufacturing facility and process, respectively. GAMM stands for a generic agile manufacturing module. That means the GAMM model is generic and powerful enough so that all the processing facility in an agile manufacturing factory can be constructed or represented by just a set of GAMM’s. GAMP stands for a generic agile manufacturing process. That means that the manufacturing process to be performed in a GAMM of all kinds of configured object as defined in VPC can be specified by a GAMP. A GAMP represents the operation sequence and variations for not a single part but a configured object, which is a set of object variants specified by a set of parameters. In both GAMM and GAMP, the concept of manufacturing capability for facility and process was defined, and the mechanism for matching facility capability and process capability was illustrated as well. With this proposed model, the knowledge of manufacturing facility and process for products with wide configuration variations can be concisely represented and will not be over-constrained for real time decision to achieve manufacturing agility.
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Kuo, Jun Yi, and 郭君怡. "Knowledge Management in projects environment of Product team communication—Taiwanese Electronic Brand Products." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/zhh2tx.
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碩士國立政治大學
科技管理研究所
97
As the business environment goes more challenging, all the organization functional projects in different stages need to start its work earlier than the product process. All the functional projects in different stages of the product process seem need to work almost at the same time to deal with the shorter product lifecycle. Managing through projects has become a standard way of doing business and now can be seen from an integral part of many organization’s business strategies. As Taiwanese electronic product companies transformed the critical RD and manufacturing knowledge which is from the project-based OEM/ODM business experience for decades to OBM business managing, the OBM Product Project covers all the product lifecycle and has wider working process than an OEM/ODM Project. The OBM Product Project creates product by several independent projects of different RD functional areas, which led by different team leaders, processing through all the stages of the product cycle. Without well interactions among the independent projects during an OBM Product Project’s lifecycle, once the knowledge assets lost between the projects working process connection, final product of the OBM Product Project can be fail or totally not match up the original product design. So how do the best Taiwanese electronic brand products make it? In this research you will find out what the real OBM Product Project working process is of the famous brand products as Acer, ASUS, MIO and HTC. How the independent projects communicate with upstream and downstream team to make the OBM Product Project successful. Also reveal the real working detail of all kinds of project leader in project team organization under different company organization. The structure of this research for cases writing and analyzing structure is following the New Product Project process and the Sequence of Knowledge Management process as the working process sequence to discuss the communication between project leaders and the interactions between the independent projects of the Product Project steps by Four Mode of Upstream-Downstream Interaction . The case materials is interviewed from 11 Product/Project Managers, also analyzed numerous second materials from magazines, reports, conferences and so on, working on revealing the real working process form all the independent projects of the OBM Product Project.
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Dan, Han-Tang, and 但漢唐. "How online product reviews influence consumers’ product attitude – the moderating role of product type, subjective knowledge, and product involvement." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/07918489308803498597.
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碩士國立中央大學
企業管理學系
105
As internet and technology advance rapidly, the diversity of product information source that consumers require when making purchase decision is much more than be-fore. For reducing the uncertainty of the product’s quality, people tend to seek online product reviews that written by consumers who had purchased the product. From pre-vious studies, the effect of reviews would vary due to the review valence. This article argues that the negativity bias of online product reviews cannot be universally applied, the relationship would vary due to lots of factors instead. According to Nelson (1970; 1974), products can be classified into search goods and experience goods, this paper examines and compares the negativity bias of online product reviews of different product types. We also suggest that the negativity bias would vary because of different product involvement and subjective knowledge. By designing different senarios of our experiment, data was then collected through entity questionnaire and 296 effective responses were collected. Statistical softwares such as SPSS 22, Amos 22 and SmartPLS(v3.2.4) were used for analyzing purposes. Results from our experiments imply that (1) the negativity bias of online product re-views on consumers’ product attitude does exist significantly overall. (2) Specifically, given the degree of product involvement, the negativity bias of search goods is signifi-cantly higher than that of experience goods. (3) Subjective knowledge has no signifi-cant moderating effect on negativity bias. (4) For experience goods, product involve-ment has a significant negative moderating effect on negativity bias, but there’s no moderating effect on negativity bias for search goods.
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Chien, Wen-Yi, and 簡文益. "A Study on Knowledge Capability and Knowledge Absorptive Capacity to Product Innovativeness." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/91845060776782108243.
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碩士國立臺北大學
企業管理學系碩士在職專班
103
This study focuses on the impact of knowledge creation ability and knowledge absorptive capacity for product innovation. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to explore the personal uniqueness and integration of knowledge creation and knowledge absorptive capacity on the interaction of product innovation, these effects and different technologies and market-driven turbulence effect how the rapidly changing environment configuration under? The study found that, except in the capacity of knowledge creation and knowledge synergistic effect of absorptive capacity on product innovation has played a positive role. In addition to the individual effect of knowledge creation ability and the synergy effect becomes stronger changes in technological turbulence increases and market-driven, and the influence of absorptive capacity is often inhibited by technological turbulence and market driven turmoil.
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Hsu, Wen-Ling, and 許文齡. "Knowledge Embeddedness,Knowledge Sharing and New Product Development-With Social Network perspective." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/51302967732224414192.
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碩士國立高雄第一科技大學
企業管理研究所
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As knowledge is considered a key factor in corporate competitiveness, knowledge sharing plays a critical role in an organization’s knowledge management. Meanwhile, due to the shortening of product life cycle, new product development is indispensable in sustaining corporate success. From the perspective of knowledge-based management, new product development (NPD) is, in fact, a series of knowledge creation activity. Based on the social network theory perspectives, this study attempts to explore the relationships of team’s social network, knowledge sharing, and new product development (NPD) performance. Then, proposed to test the moderating effects of knowledge embeddedness on the relationships between team’s social network and knowledge sharing. The top 1000 manufacturers in 2005 as ranked by the Commonwealth Monthly were sampled. A questionnaire survey yielded 63 teams valid responses. Multivariate analyses indicated that:(1)group Centralization did not influence knowledge sharing willingness and capability, whereas network density did;(2)knowledge sharing willingness and capability did influence new product development performance;(3) knowledge embeddedness did influence that team’s social network to knowledge sharing.(4)overall, the mediating effect of knowledge sharing between team’s social network and new product development performance was supported.
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Chang, Chao-Ming, and 張超銘. "Alternative energy vehicles, product involvement, product knowledge on consumer purchase intention impact study." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/45344708185854628113.
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碩士樹德科技大學
經營管理研究所
99
To understand how the customers in TAIWAN to reference and making purchase intention of Alternative Energy Vehicle, the research analyze the variables: “Product Involvement”, “Product Knowledge” and ” Product Intention” to explore the realproduct intention of customers in TAIWAN. Three research purposes will be exam: 1. Of Taiwan''s automotive consumer demographic variables of different alternative energy vehicles for the differences between product involvement. 2. Taiwan automobile consumers of different lifestyle products for alternative energy vehicles involved in the association. 3. Understanding of Taiwan''s automotive consumer product knowledge in product involvement and purchase intention intermediary between the results. The result shows: 1.Different demographic variables of Taiwan''s automotive consumer products involved in alternative energy vehicles, there are significant differences. 2.Taiwan''s auto consumers a different lifestyle for alternative energy vehicles were significantly related to product involvement 3.Taiwan''s automotive consumer product knowledge between product involvement and purchase intention intermediary produced significant results. The research finding and detail will show and discuss in the research and making suggestions to further study and enterprises.
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Pham, Nhi, and 范蔡英兒. "The impact of product involvement and product knowledge on consumer online purchasing behavior." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/93642291189642172764.
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碩士國立高雄第一科技大學
國際管理碩士學位學程
100
With continued rapid growth of the Internet and the fast-growing on-line shopping potential in the region, it is vital to explore the motivational factors associated with on-line shopping in Vietnam. Previous studies have used different theories to frame user acceptance, but little attention is paid to the online shopping system adoption. In addition, the effects of different product types and product knowledge have been relatively neglected. To overcome these limitations, the purpose of this study not only is to develop a conceptual framework based on UTAUT to explain customer’s intention towards online shopping, but also to explore the effects of different product types and product knowledge. A survey based approach was employed to investigate the research questions. The results show that product knowledge has no effect on user adoption. Further, the study also reveals that users are more inclined to buy complex products online. The study concludes with suggestions for managerial practice.