Knowledge Management Framework in New Product Development Projects of Automotive Industries

In recent year, industries are faced to the challenges with a dynamic environment. The consumer preferences are subject to changes quickly. New regulations and the climate of competitions among companies stimulate changes at the market placed product. New product development teams are challenged to accelerate their work to shorten product time-to-market. This is due to the product life cycle is getting shorter and to avoid change of preference before the product launched. The new product team's knowledge of the character of the previous product is needed to accelerate the process of developing new products.