Virtual Enterprise and Corporate Memory.

Abstract

In Concurrent Engineering, several designers in different fields and from different enterprise collaborate to build a product. This organization is a temporal organizational structure, called virtual enterprise. In fact, once the project is realized, the virtual enterprise is dissolved, so the deal in such organization is to keep the volatile knowledge. In this paper, we propose a guide to elaborate a corporate memory in Concurrent Engineering by identifying the type of memory needed, the contents of memory according to its use during the Concurrent Engineering process. Keywords Corporate Memory, Project Memory, Knowledge Management, Viewpoints, Concurrent Engineering. I. Introduction Concurrent Engineering (CE) is a difficult task in which several designers in different fields collaborate to build a system that satisfy some requirements. Hence, it is important to facilitate teamwork and collaboration between participants in the development process. Learning from past cases can be c...

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