FORWISS

BAVARIAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEMS

Knowledge Management in the Automobile Industry

Field of work:

BMW AG and the FORWISS started a co-operation project for the conception, realization and the integrating coupling of Knowledge Centers. The aim of the project is to make information to specific topic areas which are present in different enterprise departments as well as interdisciplinary knowledge intelligently available to most employees of the BMW AG and to enable cooperative problem solving via the Intranet. For this purpose, in the first phase a topic-oriented Knowledge Center within the area of competition analysis and in a second phase the integrating coupling of several Knowledge Centers will be developed, in order to support the product emergence process with the thereby available project-oriented knowledge.