Within the project we will develop knowledge and web technologies to support organisational learning and knowledge management in the engineering domain.
Clockwork involves five European research centres and two engineering companies.
These teams are often distributed, for example between centrally located staff and those testing products in the field. There is a need for communication and collaboration between developers. Existing support mechanisms for this are often separated from the tools of work, even though knowledge can only be fully and efficiently expressed within its context. Although innovation in engineering design involves developing solutions to novel problems, there is great scope for the reuse of prior design knowledge. The knowledge that needs to be shared is contained in a number of formal and informal documents as well as the dynamical system simulations themselves.