Patent ID: 6741901
Filing Date: 2004-05-25
Classification: G05B,G06Q

Abstract:
A system for coordinated inter-organizational information sharing, comprising:an information exchange center having a tech intelligence center and an engineering issue management center; a design organization to send a design specification of a product to the tech intelligence center in the information exchange center; a production organization to manufacture the product according to the design specification stored in the tech intelligence center of the information exchange center, and send manufacturing problems occurring during manufacture to the engineering issue management center in the information exchange center; a test organization to test the product manufactured by the production organization, and send test problems occurring during testing to the engineering issue management center in the information exchange center; and an application design organization to design peripheral applications for the product according to the design specification stored in the tech intelligence center of the information exchange center without the product, test the peripheral applications with the product after the product is manufactured and tested, and send application test problems occurring during testing the peripheral applications with the product to the engineering issue management center in the information exchange center, wherein the design organization connects to the information exchange center to review the manufacturing problems, test problems, and application test problems to redesign the design specification.