Enrich Workshop:

Integrating Design Resources and Knowledge Management in New Product Development

27^th September 2001

Hosted by

School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, UK 

Introduction

Fuelled by the explosive uptake of Internet technology, many manufacturing companies are re-designing their business processes and systems to exploit emerging e-business models, that is, to design, procure and even buy and sell their products and services over the Internet. Such a business change has unravelled a host of technological and socio-economical challenges including; the migration of existing IT solutions and data to the distributed Internet-based model.

Over recent years, ICT has become a critical part of the fabric of any modern manufacturing organisation to a level of complete dependence on the technology. Consequently, even well planned software improvements such as web migration are found to induce business process changes, leading to disruptive effects on the day-to-day company’s operation and generating legacy systems and data.

The recognition of such a tight link between software and business processes has led to a large body of research and commercial interest in understanding the nature, types and impact of business changes on both human and software systems. Much research work is addressing a range of issues related to software migration, software evolution, integration of legacy systems with new technology and software design for ease of maintenance and flexible software architectures.

In the context of new product development, legacy data constitutes a valuable asset for designers to access stored data on past projects including; product and process intents, design history, models and know-how. We argue that current computer supports for distributed design often fall short of providing flexible and extensible mechanisms to exploit legacy data including; design process data, and operational/contextual design knowledge locked in legacy data.

This EPSRC-funded workshop intends to bring together academics and industrialist to discuss and share best-practices in the area of systems engineering for business process change with particular focus on issues of exploiting and enriching legacy data and knowledge to support distributed design (virtual team working) in new product and service development activities.

In addition, during the workshop a detailed presentation of the Enrich research project's achievements will be given. For further detail see the workshop programme.

List of Attendees

Presentations

Attendees

Registration and Accommodation

To reserve your place, please complete the workshop registration form, and submit to the workshop secretary.

Fees

The workshop is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Attendance to the workshop is free of charge.

Location

The workshop is being held at the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK.

For details of the location of Byrom Street University Site see the location maps, and for the university see the campus guide.

Further information on transport is available here.

Organisation

The workshop is being organised by the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences.  For more information contact:

Events:

•  Workshop

•  Invited Talk

•  Online Enrich Repository