Creating high-value products and systems: Corporate management and environment for experience-value capturing technical design

Abstract

Design Management for Cross-disciplinary Teams (DMCT) is a project that studies how to implement experience-value capturing technical design and hammer out a best business management model for it. The project is supported by the Council for Science, Technology and Innovation's (CSTI) Strategic Innovation Program (SIP) under the theme of “Innovative Design/Manufacturing Technologies”. The DMCT project brings together manufacturing sector leaders, think-tanks and academic institutions to usher in the new era of manufacturing. The new strategy will obviously not succeed without free-flowing communication and exchanges of ideas among designers and engineers. Manufacturers must create an environment that encourages those professionals to step out of their highly specialized fields and share their expertise and imaginations. The DMCT project creates a mechanism for developing, testing and validating the best organizational management methods in order to break down communication silos and foster cross-disciplinary and cross-supply chain interactions and collaborations.