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Support for Workflow Process Collaboration

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Global competition has created a tremendous need to streamline the total collection of activities (or the workflow process) by which high-quality products are designed, maintained, and serviced. To meet this need, companies are embarking on practices like integrated product-process design and team-oriented management. These practices attempt to identify and address different types of constraints early during design to reduce problems and iterations in “downstream” activities. Numerous individuals must then apply these practices when developing each product component. Given that various disciplines and departments are also involved, the problem of managing the workflow process is quite complex. Furthermore, existing applications developed over the years must somehow be leveraged in any solution. A fundamental challenge addressed here is to develop process-driven information systems to actively assist the way in which each worker, within each department or job category, performs each one of these activities correctly. By ensuring correctness and timeliness within the context of the overall workflow process, dramatic cost and cycle-time reductions are achievable while producing quality products.

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  1. Biomedical Engineering Center, Ohio State University, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA

    Manjula B. Waldron PhD (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ohio State University, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA

    Kenneth J. Waldron PhD, PE (The John B. Nordholt Professor and Chairman) (The John B. Nordholt Professor and Chairman)

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Ramanathan, J. (1996). Support for Workflow Process Collaboration. In: Waldron, M.B., Waldron, K.J. (eds) Mechanical Design: Theory and Methodology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2561-2_16

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