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Role of collaboration in the South African tooling industry

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dc.contributor.author Geyer, JJ
dc.contributor.author Bruwer, R
dc.date.accessioned 2007-07-19T09:57:41Z
dc.date.available 2007-07-19T09:57:41Z
dc.date.issued 2006
dc.identifier.citation Geyer, JJ and Bruwer, R. 2006. Role of collaboration in the South African tooling industry. Journal for new generation sciences, Vol. 4(1), pp. 64-71 en
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10204/1012
dc.description.abstract The efficient design and manufacturing of injection moulds (and other tooling) requires collaboration between multi-disciplinary, geographically separated units and companies, including the company that orders plastic parts, the ones that design and/or produce the moulds and/or mould-components, and those that use injection moulding machines to produce components. Distributed collaborative tooling design and manufacturing, while being a great concept, is still difficult to implement in today's complex environment. This is clear as more functional groups become involved in the total product development process earlier to meet time-to-market and cost objectives. Although internal design and manufacturing groups may have experience in collaborating with different degrees of success, the global trend is towards greater outsourcing of activities and inclusion of complementary organisations. The requirement for extended collaboration- the process of securely and selectively exchanging, reviewing, and managing the change of product information with other internal participants and external groups such as customers, design partners, suppliers and distributed manufacturing companies - presents huge challenges. Delivering these capabilities in today's global product development processes requires a different approach to doing business than a few years ago. Companies must be willing to share more information, which "is hard because we are competitors". The tool making companies' in South Africa (of which 90% are small and medium size enterprises (SMEs)) concern for success in delivering these capabilities, can also be greatly impacted by the underlying software or information technology infrastructure required for supporting the entire product development process. This article provides a perspective for SMEs and others that might participate in collaborative tool design and manufacture in South Africa today or in the future. en
dc.language.iso en en
dc.subject Collaborative tool design en
dc.subject Tool manufacturing en
dc.subject Injection moulds en
dc.subject Tooling industry en
dc.title Role of collaboration in the South African tooling industry en
dc.type Article en
dc.identifier.apacitation Geyer, J., & Bruwer, R. (2006). Role of collaboration in the South African tooling industry. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/1012 en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitation Geyer, JJ, and R Bruwer "Role of collaboration in the South African tooling industry." (2006) http://hdl.handle.net/10204/1012 en_ZA
dc.identifier.vancouvercitation Geyer J, Bruwer R. Role of collaboration in the South African tooling industry. 2006; http://hdl.handle.net/10204/1012. en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Article AU - Geyer, JJ AU - Bruwer, R AB - The efficient design and manufacturing of injection moulds (and other tooling) requires collaboration between multi-disciplinary, geographically separated units and companies, including the company that orders plastic parts, the ones that design and/or produce the moulds and/or mould-components, and those that use injection moulding machines to produce components. Distributed collaborative tooling design and manufacturing, while being a great concept, is still difficult to implement in today's complex environment. This is clear as more functional groups become involved in the total product development process earlier to meet time-to-market and cost objectives. Although internal design and manufacturing groups may have experience in collaborating with different degrees of success, the global trend is towards greater outsourcing of activities and inclusion of complementary organisations. The requirement for extended collaboration- the process of securely and selectively exchanging, reviewing, and managing the change of product information with other internal participants and external groups such as customers, design partners, suppliers and distributed manufacturing companies - presents huge challenges. Delivering these capabilities in today's global product development processes requires a different approach to doing business than a few years ago. Companies must be willing to share more information, which "is hard because we are competitors". The tool making companies' in South Africa (of which 90% are small and medium size enterprises (SMEs)) concern for success in delivering these capabilities, can also be greatly impacted by the underlying software or information technology infrastructure required for supporting the entire product development process. This article provides a perspective for SMEs and others that might participate in collaborative tool design and manufacture in South Africa today or in the future. DA - 2006 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Collaborative tool design KW - Tool manufacturing KW - Injection moulds KW - Tooling industry LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2006 T1 - Role of collaboration in the South African tooling industry TI - Role of collaboration in the South African tooling industry UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/1012 ER - en_ZA


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