Engineering is becoming more collaborative and increasingly global. However, inefficiencies in the communication and collaboration between engineers and engineering teams that are geographically distributed routinely cause competiveness and quality problems, as well as slowing the time to market for new innovations. Hence, networked knowledge exchange between engineers, both inside and outside the boundaries of a company site, is becoming increasingly important. In this chapter we will present a new IT-based tool called LEAP Virtual Obeya that is able to overcome some of the limitations of existing tools and traditional approaches. The LEAP Virtual Obeya is a flexible concept that incorporates lean thinking and enables new visual project management approaches in teams engaged in specific processes, such as innovation and engineering design, offering enhanced support for specific tasks such as problem solving, decision making, coediting, and issue/task management. The LEAP Virtual Obeya has been evaluated based on actual use in industrial cases. Although the current implementation appears to be best for simple collaborations, the results are also promising to support more complex collaborative cases in a networked enterprise setting.

LEAP Virtual Obeya

ROSSI, MONICA;TERZI, SERGIO;
2016-01-01

Abstract

Engineering is becoming more collaborative and increasingly global. However, inefficiencies in the communication and collaboration between engineers and engineering teams that are geographically distributed routinely cause competiveness and quality problems, as well as slowing the time to market for new innovations. Hence, networked knowledge exchange between engineers, both inside and outside the boundaries of a company site, is becoming increasingly important. In this chapter we will present a new IT-based tool called LEAP Virtual Obeya that is able to overcome some of the limitations of existing tools and traditional approaches. The LEAP Virtual Obeya is a flexible concept that incorporates lean thinking and enables new visual project management approaches in teams engaged in specific processes, such as innovation and engineering design, offering enhanced support for specific tasks such as problem solving, decision making, coediting, and issue/task management. The LEAP Virtual Obeya has been evaluated based on actual use in industrial cases. Although the current implementation appears to be best for simple collaborations, the results are also promising to support more complex collaborative cases in a networked enterprise setting.
2016
Taking the LEAP: The Methods and Tools of the Linked Engineering and Manufacturing Platform (LEAP)
9780444637543
978-0-12-805263-1
Collaboration; Collaboration tools; Collaborative knowledge work; Collaborative work; CSCW; Dashboard; LEAP platform; Obeya; Team; Virtual Obeya; Visual management; Workspace concept; Engineering (all)
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