Rechnerunterstützte Organisation von Entwicklung und Konstruktion

The current economic recession forces many companies to reorganize deeply their management methods in product development. An improvement of competitive power is based on introduction of decentralized enterprise units, of teamwork in design, and of time driven decision making. All decentralized enterprise units coordinate their activities to reach their goals which are influenced by dynamic changing and specific market fields. A stronger empowerment of these methods will be reached if their application is accompanied by task specific computer tools. Project Management Systems, computer-based tools for support of teamwork, and product respectively process modelling provide an effective framework for the new methods of organization.