Authors:
Oscar M. Rodríguez-Elias
1
;
Alberto L. Morán
2
;
Jaqueline I. Lavandera
3
;
Aurora Vizcaíno
4
and
Juan Pablo Soto
4
Affiliations:
1
Universidad de Sonora, Mexico
;
2
Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Mexico
;
3
FAMOSA-Ensenada, Mexico
;
4
Alarcos Research Group, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
Keyword(s):
Knowledge Management, Manufacturing Process, Process Analysis, Knowledge Flow Analysis.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Biomedical Engineering
;
Data Engineering
;
Engineering Information System
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Health Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Knowledge Management
;
Management Information Systems
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Requirements Analysis And Management
;
Society, e-Business and e-Government
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
Abstract:
Development of methods to integrate Knowledge Management (KM) in organizational processes is an open issue. KM should facilitate the flow of knowledge from where it is created or stored, to where it is needed to be applied. Therefore, an initial step towards the integration of KM in organizational processes should be the analysis of the way in which knowledge is actually flowing in these processes, and then, to propose alternatives to improve that flow. This paper presents the use of the Knowledge Flow Identification (KoFI) methodology as a means to improve a manufacturing process knowledge flow. Since KoFI was initially developed to analyze software processes, in this paper we illustrate how it can also be used in a manufacturing domain. The results of the application of KoFI are also presented, which include the design of a knowledge portal and an initial evaluation from its potential users.