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space where they are able to collaborate, share knowl-
edge and information, document and coordinate their
work with each other. For this specific network that
participates in the SmartNet Project the partners use
the project collaboration platform ’Tricia’ to face all
these issues.
Typically for the industry sectors, documentation
will only be done if it is either recommended or re-
quired due to quality or risk assurance or the enter-
prises really can benefit from it. Thus, the SmartNet
Navigator has to consolidate the documentation of all
development activities to show the current status of
the collaborative development project. This automat-
ically interpreted status supports the coordination of
the collaborative product development project.
For the IHN this means that all meetings, tasks and
results that were documented on the project platform
are related to activity types and to the development
project they contribute to. Based on the rules exem-
plarily described in Section 2.1.3 the SmartNet Nav-
igator application calculates the current status of the
development project and visualizes (cf. e.g. (Hauder
et al., 2012)) the result as shown in Figure 5.
This example shows that the IHN has collected
and formulated their ideas (M2 is finalized; colored
green) on how this new motorcycling helmet should
protect its bearer. They are currently working on the
processing of the new material to set up several proto-
types of the complete helmet. Parts of it like the inner
shell have already been tested against the homologa-
tion criteria (see Prototype test (α-test) in Figure 5).
Obviously, the SmartNet Navigator in Figure 5
reveals several open (grey) or in-progress (orange)
modules and activity types owing to insufficient docu-
mentation or switching between several activities and
forgetting to finalize or start them. In both cases the
SmartNet Navigator reminds the team on the one hand
to finalize the activities and on the other hand to col-
lect all information they may need in later activities
when it is easy to get them. A second big advantage
for the network or single decision makers is to get a
quick overview on the current status of the develop-
ment.
4 CONCLUSIONS
The SmartNet Navigator helps enterprises acting in
collaborative networks to identify states of develop-
ment projects. Network partners highly esteemed this
aggregated view, as it gives a good overview at a sin-
gle glance and serves as a nice instrument to evaluate
the information basis. The information about the cur-
rent state will be used for further implementation of
tools supporting the application of the collaboration
model itself, e.g. by using the information to propose
methods and techniques of innovation management to
the users or to recommend network partners.
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