BM_VE Architecture Reference Model for Concurrent Engineering

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Author(s): Antonio José Caulliraux Pithon (Federal Center of Technological Education, Brazil)and Goran D. Putnik (University of Minho, Portugal)
Copyright: 2008
Pages: 8
Source title: Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Goran D. Putnik (University of Minho, Portugal)and Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha (Polytechnic Institute of Cavado and Ave, Portugal)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-885-7.ch010

Keywords: Information Science Reference / Media & Communications / Social Computing / Virtual Communities & Virtual Reality

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To support the requirements for the new organizational forms of enterprises, the cooperative work and work groups approach has appeared. Cooperative work may be defined as one where a group of people, physically separated or not, articulate the accomplishment of a common task in a synchronous or asynchronous form. In order to cooperate, a previous agreement should be considered. All should be committed to work to reach a common objective (Borges, 1995). It is supposed that the agility, that is, dynamics, with which these work groups may be created and reconfigured, makes it possible to use the best “resources,” the (best) individuals capable to add value to one defined task, independently of their (the individuals’) (geographic) location and, consequently, contribute to the product and process quality. In that sense, it is supposed that application of virtual enterprise (VE) organizational principles contributes to the agility of the work teams, that is, to the concurrent engineering (CE) work teams, or team work, organization.

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