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Collaborative Engineering and the Internet: Linking Product Development Partners Via the Web
- $35.25 each
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In
manufacturing, new communication technologies have ushered
in a new era for the team-based product development
strategy of concurrent engineering.
Known as collaborative
engineering, the new phase makes it unnecessary for team
members to be in the same room, seated around the same
table.
The team members can be
scattered around the facility, around the city, around the
country--even around the world, and they can all still
contribute their valuable input.
More complex than
traditional concurrent engineering, collaborative
engineering not only deals with collaboration itself, but
also the infrastructure and environments that enable and
nurture it.
Going far beyond describing
the use of the Internet, Anthony Mills thoroughly examines
the principles, applications, and various tools relevant
to this new age of industrial communications.
He explains how an
organization can use them effectively in melding together
internal and external team members--no matter how far
flung--so that they can play major roles in the
organization's success. |