Abstract Knowledge and information management has focused on how available knowledge
is exploited to enhance organisational performance especially in marketing, costing, design …

With NPD/I, there are no hard and fast rules to determine the length of such projects and
quite often over a 10-year period several hundred projects could come into being, and this …

This article provides an overview of reported research relevant to the management of
manufacturing-related knowledge and highlights the sharing of knowledge in the product …

To systematically create and share product development knowledge creates challenges for
engineering companies. This paper presents an extensive study regarding the process of …

In this study, we have brought several knowledge management theories and practices
together and have investigated the valuable aspects in each one of them. Throughout our …

The knowledge-based theory of a firm suggests that knowledge is the only remaining
sustainable resource that can provide competitive advantage in dynamic environments …

Knowledge management is one element that determines success of new product
development. This study explores how knowledge management is interrelated with new …

Global competition has pushed firms to improve and upgrade their manufacturing operations
continuously. Explores the role of knowledge base and learning to facilitate this …

Design for manufacturing (DFM), especially the use of manufacturing knowledge to support
design decisions, has received attention in the academic domain. However, industry …

As markets have become global, more and more manufacturing companies achieve global
operations through various strategic business alliances including joint ventures and …