Collaborative Engineering
Characteristics and Challenges of Cross-company Partnerships in the Integrated Engineering of Products and Supporting Services
Peter Gabriel (Ed.), Matthias Künzel, Tom Kraus, Sebastian Straub
Engineering is crucial for the economic success of products and services. However, the criteria for success change: Price, quality and functionality are no longer the only key factors. Instead, engineering increasingly creates the prerequisites for future business models by supplying supporting services and new ways of product up-grades. In the future engineering will accompany the entire lifetime of a product. The study explains the challenges of collaboration in engineering.