Network Collaboration
Bernd Scholz‐Reiter, Christian Meinecke, Daniel Rippel · 2012
The chapter on network collaboration first presents a review of relevant literature in the field of collaboration, its concepts and mechanisms. The European electronic industry (EEI) is introduced in detail as an industrial branch, which is characterized by shortening product-lifecycles and quickly changing customer demands. Then, the chapter presents collaboration challenges within the electronic industry. Next, the chapter presents the state of the art in collaboration in the electronics industry. This summary is the results of the authors' investigations using case studies conducted on real-world collaborative processes and on an intensive literature review. The chapter presents specific requirements and indicators, which are vital to a successful collaboration between network partners. In addition, it presents a classification of the application segments using the similarity of requirements and deduced application segment profiles.