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A Model-Based Approach to Identify Barriers in Design Knowledge Reuse

Part of: Knowledge-based Engineering

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2019

Thomas Jordan ,
Beate Bender ,
Michael Herzog  and
Young-Woo Song
Thomas Jordan*
Affiliation:
Chair for Product Development, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany Komatsu Germany GmbH
Beate Bender
Affiliation:
Chair for Product Development, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
Michael Herzog
Affiliation:
Chair for Product Development, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
Young-Woo Song
Affiliation:
Chair for Product Development, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
*
Contact: Jordan, Thomas, Ruhr-University Bochum; Komatsu Germany, Chair for Product Development, Germany, thomas.jordan@komatsu-mining.de

Abstract

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Today, information and knowledge as competitive factors influence the success of companies as much as traditional production factors like human resources or physical capital. However, the reuse of design knowledge still represents a major challenge for engineering organizations. That is, because barriers exist hindering a successful knowledge reuse. On the basis of a literature review, the research depicted in this paper analyses the relation between single information conveying design knowledge and barriers hindering a successful knowledge reuse. Developing a model-based approach, we propose a micro logic containing three steps and underlying methods enabling practitioners to identify situation-specific barriers within their organization. We illustrate the industrial application of the approach in a case study at a mining machinery OEM.

Keywords

Knowledge managementInformation managementDesign managementKnowledge barriersDesign knowledge reuse
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Proceedings of the Design Society: International Conference on Engineering Design , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , July 2019 , pp. 2427 - 2436
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