Actors' networks management for design co-ordination

Livier Serna (1, 2) , Christophe Merlo (1, 3) , Marc Zolghadri (3) , Stéphanie Minel (1)

1 ESTIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
2 ITESM - Tecnológico de Monterrey = Monterrey Institute of Technology
3 IMS - Laboratoire de l'intégration, du matériau au système

In a worldwide context of collaborative development of new products and/or services, companies have to control the design process to increase design performance. Formal and informal networks of actors are activated during the very first phases of product development projects in order to define the company's partners in a more efficient way. Our goal is to study relationships between co-design projects and networks of partners in order to help project managers in setting up design teams. This leads to the identification of several driverswhich influence the actors' network use and leading. Drivers such as project organisational structure, concurrent engineering techniques, groupware-like and knowledge-based systems support and enhance such networks. We will base our experimental issues on an industrial case study from energy production sector. This industrial case explores the structure and the management of actors'networks.

Mots clés: Co-design; Actors' network; Collaboration evaluation; Design co-ordination; Engineering design

Domaines: Autre

Livier Serna, Christophe Merlo, Marc Zolghadri, Stéphanie Minel. Actors' networks management for design co-ordination. International Journal on Interactive Design and Manufacturing, 2011, 5 (1), pp.67-71. ⟨10.1007/s12008-010-0115-3⟩. ⟨hal-00584951⟩