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Knowledge Management is a broad, critical and strategic issue for all companies. Indeed, knowledge is the key to competitiveness, for today’s competitive business environment requires reactivity, flexibility, agility and innovation. While knowledge itself is difficult to measure, it manifests itself in improved products, technologies and businesses. Four years ago, based on the experience of many leading experts worldwide, CIRP (The International Academy for Production Engineering) decided to prepare and structure a proposal for a Network of Excellence. The European Community agreed to fund this NoE, with the aim of building a "Knowledge Community in Production." This aim was achievable because the NoE partners represented the most important universities in Europe and had strong partnerships with laboratories in distant locations, such as Japan, Australia, South Africa and the USA. This book provides an understanding of what knowledge is and of why it is one of the most strategic issues in future manufacturing competitiveness, which will be based primarily on high-level technologies and innovative products. The collective experience that contributed to the publication of this book is unique in that it is based on 34 complementary contributions that represent the state of affairs and current topics in Knowledge Management today. The book describes fundamental Knowledge Management concepts, methods and tools as well as concrete experiences which are presented and discussed. The specific European context and some sample cases from European manufacturing knowledge sharing also provide original added value to the book.

Production engineering. --- Production engineering --- Knowledge management. --- Knowledge management --- Manufacturing engineering --- Process engineering --- Industrial engineering --- Mechanical engineering --- Management of knowledge assets --- Management --- Information technology --- Intellectual capital --- Organizational learning --- Engineering design. --- Industrial engineering. --- Engineering economy. --- Information technology. --- Engineering Design. --- Industrial and Production Engineering. --- Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing. --- IT in Business. --- Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet). --- Economy, Engineering --- Engineering economics --- Management engineering --- Simplification in industry --- Engineering --- Value analysis (Cost control) --- Design, Engineering --- Industrial design --- Strains and stresses --- IT (Information technology) --- Technology --- Telematics --- Information superhighway --- Design --- Engineering economics. --- Business—Data processing. --- Application software. --- Application computer programs --- Application computer software --- Applications software --- Apps (Computer software) --- Computer software

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Business models, which aims at determining how efficient can be a life cycle strategy from different point of view (customer, policy, environment, economics,…). End of life strategies, presenting recent approaches and technological solutions for end-of life treatments. Product development for sustainability, which aims at showing how designers integrate environmental conside- tions to improve their solutions. Product life cycle management, dealing with methods and tools to support life cycle considerations. This book is divided into four sections reflecting the above themes and will be of interest to academics, students and practitioners, specializing in environmental issues in mechanical engineering. We hope that you will find it of the greatest interest to compare your various points of view within the field broached throughout the conference. We hope you all - joy reading this book, which aims to be a reference textbook for all - searchers in this particular field and for the teaching staff confronted with training methodologies in integrated design and environment. It will allow you to assess the scope of the development prospects in an extremely wide ranging field. Finally, we would like to highlight the very significant input of the m- bers of the organizing committee for the success of the conference and to express our sincere appreciation to all the authors and to the members of the international program committee.

Product life cycle --- Sustainable development --- Life cycle, Product --- Manufactures --- Marketing --- Product management --- Life cycle --- Engineering design. --- Computer aided design. --- Manufactures. --- Environmental management. --- Waste disposal. --- Engineering Design. --- Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design. --- Manufacturing, Machines, Tools, Processes. --- Environmental Management. --- Waste Management/Waste Technology. --- Environmental stewardship --- Stewardship, Environmental --- Environmental sciences --- Management --- Manufactured goods --- Manufactured products --- Products --- Products, Manufactured --- Commercial products --- Manufacturing industries --- CAD (Computer-aided design) --- Computer-assisted design --- Computer-aided engineering --- Design --- Design, Engineering --- Engineering --- Industrial design --- Strains and stresses --- Computer-aided engineering. --- Waste management. --- CAE --- Data processing

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Knowledge Management is a broad, critical and strategic issue for all companies. Indeed, knowledge is the key to competitiveness, for today's competitive business environment requires reactivity, flexibility, agility and innovation. While knowledge itself is difficult to measure, it manifests itself in improved products, technologies and businesses. Four years ago, based on the experience of many leading experts worldwide, CIRP (The International Academy for Production Engineering) decided to prepare and structure a proposal for a Network of Excellence. The European Community agreed to fund this NoE, with the aim of building a "Knowledge Community in Production." This aim was achievable because the NoE partners represented the most important universities in Europe and had strong partnerships with laboratories in distant locations, such as Japan, Australia, South Africa and the USA. This book provides an understanding of what knowledge is and of why it is one of the most strategic issues in future manufacturing competitiveness, which will be based primarily on high-level technologies and innovative products. The collective experience that contributed to the publication of this book is unique in that it is based on 34 complementary contributions that represent the state of affairs and current topics in Knowledge Management today. The book describes fundamental Knowledge Management concepts, methods and tools as well as concrete experiences which are presented and discussed. The specific European context and some sample cases from European manufacturing knowledge sharing also provide original added value to the book.

Industrial economics --- Materials sciences --- Engineering sciences. Technology --- Production management --- Information systems --- ICT (informatie- en communicatietechnieken) --- bedrijfseconomie --- DFMA (design for manufacture and assembly) --- informatiesystemen --- informatica management --- industriële marketing --- ingenieurswetenschappen

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Industrial economics --- Materials sciences --- Engineering sciences. Technology --- Production management --- Information systems --- ICT (informatie- en communicatietechnieken) --- bedrijfseconomie --- DFMA (design for manufacture and assembly) --- informatiesystemen --- duurzame ontwikkeling --- informatica management --- industriële marketing --- ingenieurswetenschappen

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A typical characterization of EuroSPI is reflected in a statement made by a c- pany: “. . . the biggest value of EuroSPI lies in its function as a European knowledge and experience exchange mechanism for SPI and innovation. ” Since its beginning in 1994 in Dublin, the EuroSPI initiative has outlined that there is not a single silver bullet to solve SPI issues, but that you need to understand a c- bination of different SPI methods and approaches to achieve concrete benefits. The- fore each proceedings volume covers a variety of different topics, and at the conf- ence we discuss potential synergies and the combined use of such methods and - proaches. These proceedings contain selected research papers for five topics: Section I: SPI Tools Section II: SPI Methods Section III: SPI in SMEs Section IV: Economic Aspects of SPI Section V: The Future of SPI Section I presents studies on SPI tools. The authors provide an insight into new tools which can be used for SPI. Willem Bekkers et al. present a new assessment method and tool for software product management. Ismael Edrei-Espinosa-Curiel et al. illustrate a graphical approach to support the teaching of SPI. Paul Clarke and coworkers deal with an analysis and a tool to help real adoption of standards like ISO 12207 and they focus on SPI implementation and practices. Esparanca Amengual et al. present a new team-based assessment method and tool.

Computer science --- Programming --- Computer architecture. Operating systems --- Information systems --- Computer. Automation --- MIS (management informatie systeem) --- applicatiebeheer --- apps --- computers --- computerbesturingssystemen --- programmeren (informatica) --- informatiesystemen --- programmeertalen --- software engineering --- informatica management --- computerkunde --- architectuur (informatica)