Research Issues on Collaborative Product Design and Development

Table 3 shows the overview of research issues on CPD in terms of collaborative environment, strategy, and project management. To solve those research issues, it requires the wide spectrum of CM or PDM/PLM knowledge. The major problem in apply CM to CPD is lack of standard procedures for identifying configuration, controlling changes, accounting configuration status, and auditing configurations (Schuh, 2008). Most researches available today are about the principles and guidelines in applying CM. In this chapter, we reviewed several specific procedures for identifying configuration, controlling changes, accounting configuration status, and auditing configurations from previous researches. There are still some undiscovered cells inside our proposed research issue cube. There is also no generic procedure discovered till the date this chapter is written. Despite these shortages, we believe the generic procedures will be inducted in the near future with more and more specific implementations of CM to industries. For example, the idea of apply PLM to maintenance services in aerospace industry (Lee et. al., 2008).