Supporting conflict management in collaborative design: An approach to assess engineering change impacts

Computers in Industry

Volumn 59, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 882-893

  Ouertani, M Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collaborative process; Conflict management; Design process traceability; Engineering change; Engineering data dependencies; Process coordination strategies

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; CONCURRENT ENGINEERING; DESIGN; ENGINEERING; FLOW INTERACTIONS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SENSOR NETWORKS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; THEOREM PROVING;

COLLABORATIVE PROCESS; CONFLICT MANAGEMENT; DESIGN PROCESS TRACEABILITY; ENGINEERING CHANGE; ENGINEERING DATA DEPENDENCIES; PROCESS COORDINATION STRATEGIES;

PROCESS ENGINEERING;

EID: 54049099904     PISSN: 01663615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compind.2008.07.010     Document Type: Article

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