陳育仁

In the face of the ever-growing global competition, collaborative design has become one of the most promising business strategies for increasing the competitiveness of an enterprise. The essence of collaborative design lies in a distributive and collaborative process, where people in different disciplines from different enterprises cooperate to design products and develop related processes through remote coordination, communication, and process control. 　The success of collaborative design depends on the effective sharing of engineering knowledge throughout the entire process of development. Consequently, the implementation of engineering knowledge management, which supports collaborative design and also accumulates corporate memory, has become one of the most important tasks to be managed by industries. 　This research aims to develop enabling technologies to facilitate the development of collaborative engineering knowledge management systems. This research will focus on the development of technology for (i) capture and storage of the implicit engineering knowledge, (ii) integration of the implicit engineering knowledge and product data, and (iii) collaborative management and sharing of the engineering knowledge. 　The objective can be achieved by (i) establishing a collaborative engineering process model and a collaborative engineering knowledge management framework, (ii) designing a functional framework for the collaborative engineering knowledge management system, (iii) identifying and developing enabling technologies of the collaborative engineering knowledge management system, and (iv) implementing enabling technologies based on the developed techniques for the above-mentioned enabling technologies and constructing a prototype for the collaborative engineering knowledge management system.

With the advent of knowledge economy, knowledge has become the most important asset of enterprises in the 21st century. Whether the enterprise knowledge can be accumulated and effectively employed will be the key factor for the success of enterprises. Therefore, knowledge management has become one of the important issues in both industry and academic areas. In recent years, enterprise systems have been widely used to increase enterprise competitiveness. The development and implementation of enterprise systems is a knowledge intensive procedure due to its relation with enterprise processes and the involvement of information, system and software engineering technologies. Therefore, it is required to conduct knowledge management so as to increase the effectiveness for enterprise system development and implementation, and thus help increase competitiveness of the industries The objective of the research is to develop a knowledge management methodology and a system framework to facilitate the establishment of knowledge management environment so as to support knowledge management in enterprise system development and implementation. The results will enable the knowledge management and sharing for enterprise system development and implementation and consequently increase the efficiency of enterprise system development and implementation as well as the enterprise competitiveness.