Title :
The Knowledge Management of Furniture Product Design and Development Process
Author :
Zhang, Jijuan ; Zhang, Zhongfeng
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Furniture & Art Design, Central South Univ. of Forestry & Technol., Changsha, China
Abstract :
Knowledge management is the knowledge-centered management, which has been appearing with the adaptation of knowledge economy age and aims at improving enterprise core competition and reaction to knowledge attainment, sharing, appliance and creation. The development of furniture design is one complicated movement of knowledge, which is one course of the relative members obtaining knowledge, and applying the knowledge to meet the needs of each stage, each stage will be finished through the knowledge collection, storage, transformation, sharing and creation. It is important to improve the knowledge management that it is necessary to have the knowledge shared by the enterprise and ensure more successful products design and maintain the designers smart creativity as well. The article analyzed the design process of furniture, the knowledge management of each stage of the process. It also points out that integrated knowledge management is the strong assurance of successful development of furniture design.
Keywords :
furniture; knowledge management; product design; product development; development process; furniture product design; integrated knowledge management; knowledge collection; knowledge economy; knowledge sharing; design; development process; furniture products; knowledge management; knowledge sharing;
Conference_Titel :
Information Management, Innovation Management and Industrial Engineering (ICIII), 2010 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kunming
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8829-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICIII.2010.118