Today manufacturers of complex investment goods concentrate on their core business and retrieve additional services from external subcontractors. Many design reviews are necessary to coordinate such cooperation. They cause high expense for manpower and for travel. In the research project “Digital Product Development with Virtually Cooperating Teams using Optical Networks” a new conference system will be realised, which utilizes Virtual Reality (VR). This paper describes the requirements and the process flow of future distributed design reviews as well as the method of solution which is prototypical realized in the project ProViT.
Industrie Management | Volume 19 | 2003 | Edition 5 | Pages 25-28
