Case Study of Collaborative Knowledge Management in the Early Phases of Product Development

This paper reports on a case study of collaborative product development and knowledge management platforms for Small to Medium Enterprises. It has been recognised that current Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) implementations are document oriented, have a non-customisable data model and inter enterprise integration difficulties. To overcome these, an ontological knowledge management methodology using semantic web standards was added to a PLM and an open-source alternative. The client-server shortcomings have been overcome using a de-centralised architecture. This is implementable at low cost, the scale and accessibility of the system increases in line with user numbers.

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