Cluster Development and Knowledge Exchange in Supply Chain

Industry cluster and supply chain are in focus of every countries which rely on knowledge-based economy. Both focus on improving the competitiveness of firm in the industry in the different aspect. This paper tries to illustrate how the industry cluster can increase the supply chain performance. Then, the proposed methodology concentrates on the collaboration and knowledge exchange in supply chain. For improving the capability of the proposed methodology, information technology is applied to facilitate the communication and the exchange of knowledge between the actors of the supply chain within the cluster. The supply chain of French stool producer was used as a case study to validate the methodology and to demonstrate the result of the study

Ontology-Based Education/Industry Collaboration System

As the main supplier of the workforce to the industry, higher education is increasingly criticized for not being abreast with the digital revolution and being disconnected from the industry. Competency-based education was developed to address this issue and bridge the gap between what the university is producing and the requirements of the industry. Hence, tools need to be developed that assists in the analysis process. This paper focuses on proposing a system that models the competencies required by occupations in the industry and higher education curricula and assists in matching profiles from the two domains. The different concepts in the domain are modeled as a semantic web ontology, and an inference engine performs the profile matching. In addition to the profile matching, the system calculates a score for the matching degree using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) method. 2013 IEEE.This work was supported by the Qatar National Research Fund (a member of Qatar Foundation) NPRP under Grant NPRP 7-1883-5-289.Scopu

An approach to control collaborative processes in PLM systems

Companies that collaborate within the product development processes need to implement an effective management of their collaborative activities. Despite the implementation of a PLM system, the collaborative activities are not efficient as it might be expected. This paper presents an analysis of the problems related to the collaborative work using a PLM system. From this analysis, we propose an approach for improving collaborative processes within a PLM system, based on monitoring indicators. This approach leads to identify and therefore to mitigate the brakes of the collaborative work

Cluster Development and Knowledge Exchange in Supply Chain

Industry cluster and supply chain are in focus of every countries which rely on knowledge-based economy. Both focus on improving the competitiveness of firm in the industry in the different aspect. This paper tries to illustrate how the industry cluster can increase the supply chain performance. Then, the proposed methodology concentrates on the collaboration and knowledge exchange in supply chain. For improving the capability of the proposed methodology, information technology is applied to facilitate the communication and the exchange of knowledge between the actors of the supply chain within the cluster. The supply chain of French stool producer was used as a case study to validate the methodology and to demonstrate the result of the study.Knowledge engineering, Logistics, Knowledge Exchange