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Immortal Information and Through-Life Knowledge Management (IITKM): Strategies and Tools for the Emerging Product-Service Paradigm

  • Start date: 01 January 2006
  • End date: 31 March 2009
Engineering companies across a range of sectors, including defence, civil aerospace and construction, are moving from simply supplying products to owning, supporting and maintaining them on behalf of users, often over long timescales. This new "product-service" approach requires business, operational and information-system models that extend thirty years or more into future.

This project is concerned with identifying such models. The project comprises three key areas of research. The first focuses on the creation of novel and extended representations of products that will integrate methods for handling product information, design-process information and design rationale.

The second research area is concerned with learning from the product in use. The product life-cycle is itself part of a cycle of development of the information describing the product, the commercial, manufacturing and operational systems in which it is embedded, and of the knowledge embedded in the communities that develop, support and use these systems. The dynamics of this triumvirate of information, knowledge and systems are being studied.

The third research area is concerned with creating organisational systems to manage the overall knowledge system life-cycle and the people-centric procedures within them. It investigates the dynamics of knowledge use throughout the life-cycle of complex product-service systems.

  • Outputs (31)

Grant holder

Professor Christopher Alan McMahon

Programme name

None

Co - applicants

Grey

Professor Stuart Green

Professor Simon Austin

Professor SJ Culley

Mr M.A. Sinclair

Professor Ken Wallace

Professor Andrew Dainty

Dr Lauri Koskela

Professor Jonathan Corney

Professor Michael Lewis

Professor Alan de Pennington

Professor Will Hughes

Mrs CE Siemieniuch

Dr Liz Lyon

Professor Michail Kagioglou

Professor Michael Lewis

Professor Martin Sexton

Professor Alison McKay

Professor Roger Flanagan

Professor Mark Easterby-Smith

Dr Robert Young

Professor Ghassan Aouad

Dr Linda Newnes

Professor Jennifer Whyte

Professor Neal Juster

Professor Peter McDermott

Professor William Ion

Professor John Clarkson

Professor James Ritchie

Professor David Gann

Professor Edward Finch

Professor Elena Antonacopoulou

Dr Jennifer Harding

CE Siemieniuch

Grant amount

£441,244.22

Grant reference

RES-331-27-0006

Institution

University of Bath

Discipline

Management & Business Studies

Management and Business Studies

Grant type

Fellowship