A methodology to facilitate knowledge sharing in the new product development process

摘要: This paper describes the findings of an exploratory case study to investigate knowledge sharing problems in new product development (NPD) process a multi-national manufacturing company, and classifies into three categories, i.e. (a) lack explicit definition prioritization information about used NPD process, (b) challenges raised by, tools support, multilingual, multidisciplinary environment, (c) dissemination task users. An ontology-based methodology has been proposed, pilot carried out solve these problems. The includes selection suitable candidate tasks (or sub-processes) for study, elicitation selected knowledge, ontology, mechanism visualize disseminate ontology Early implementation tests have shown that proposed may be facilitate process. project was sponsored by leading heating system manufacturer further will with real industrial