This paper reports on the process developed and applied to evaluating web-based collaborative applications that address the ever increasing demand for better and faster communication in engineering between partners and different locations within distributed industrial organisations in the aerospace industry. A three-step approach covering requirements analysis, market screening and tool ranking and filtering led to the decision for two collaborative applications that were implemented at MTU Aero Engines. This paper - being based on the findings of a diploma thesis performed at MTU Aero Engines [Steiner, 2003] - has reported on efforts in supporting distributed engineering in the aerospace industry by web-based collaborative applications. A review of the functionalities of such tools lead to an in-depth requirements analysis and tool evaluation that recommended two tools that are being tested in pilot implementations. The described work represents MTU's first steps towards utilising new-generation web-based collaborative applications to improve efficiency and speed up communication in distributed product development. Currently, a usage and performance analysis of both tools is being performed and a rollout to a much-enlarged user group is being planned.
Supporting distributed engineering in the aerospace industry by web-based collaborative applications
Unterstützung des verteilten Engineering in der Luft- und Raumfahrtindustrie durch webbasierte kollaborative Anwendungen
2003
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Aufsatz (Konferenz)
Englisch
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