Due to the rapid growth of consumer electronics market, there are urgent needs in effective
execution of integrated circuit (IC) collaborative design projects and better utilization of …

Under the trend of lean product development thinking, more parts of a product were out-
sourced or off-shored, which brings the challenges of collaboration between core enterprise …

In the global market, inter-firm collaborative product development has become an
increasingly significant business strategy for enhanced product competitiveness …

Design Collaboration is an activity that requires participation of project team members for
organizing design tasks and sharing experience and information. Currently, in this process …

Coupled activities are the main reasons to cause collaboration in product development (PD)
process. Previous modeling approaches such as Petri net, IDEF and DSM fail to represent …

The use of cross-functional teams in integrated product development (IPD) has become a
common practice in industry. Despite an extant body of literature on the importance of …

Many organizations have attempted to create information technology systems to support the
collaborative concurrent engineering, including project management functions, capable of …

Multimedia systems design generally requires a collaborative effort from a group of
designers with a variety of backgrounds and tasks, such as content experts, instructional …

Design activities are a series of decision-making, and important decision-making takes
place often early in product development. However, uncertainty and imprecision exist in …

Abstract Knowledge sharing is a precondition for engineering project design teams to
achieve an efficient design; however, designers are not always willing to share knowledge …