From concurrent engineering to collaborative learning of design

Nicolas Maranzana (1) , Nathalie Gartiser (1) , Emmanuel Caillaud (1)

1 LGeco - Laboratoire de Génie de la Conception

In the hostile and competitive environment we live in, complexification of products and systems, as well as the necessity to innovate drive the companies to work together more and more. Literature dealing about themes of group work abounds ; terms are however defined in a blurred and even contradictory way depending on the authors. Our paper aims at contributing to this clarification. Therefore, having defined the terms of communication, coordination, cooperation and collaboration, we shall more particularly analyse the design activity in a group and shall characterize distributed design and collaborative design. By using this characterization, we shall show the link with the learning of design in network. We will conclude on two collaboration levels between partners in an innovation context, namely : design together and learn together how to design

Mots clés: concurrent engineering; co-design; collaborative design; distributed design; learning; inter-companies

Nicolas Maranzana, Nathalie Gartiser, Emmanuel Caillaud. From concurrent engineering to collaborative learning of design. International Journal of Design and Innovation Research, 2008, pp.39-51. ⟨hal-00690988⟩