Analysis of Telecooperation in the German Automotive Industry

Abstract

In times of increasing globalization and high customer demands, product development in the automotive industry is becoming more and more decentralized. Consequently, cooperation between enterprises must be enhanced and deepened. This cannot be handled by conventional telecommunication technology alone. An increase in work efficiency and productivity can be reached by telecooperation, i.e. computer-supported teamwork. This paper compares conventional cooperation processes and telecooperation in the framework of an extended efficiency analysis. It could be shown that telecooperation reduces both costs and time of cooperation processes and enhances the subjectively-felt quality of information and work results.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA437621

Entities

People

  • Holger Luczak
  • Jorg Depolt
  • Ludger Schmidt

Organizations

  • RWTH Aachen University

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Automotive Industry
  • Case Studies
  • Commerce
  • Communication Systems
  • Cooperation
  • Efficiency
  • Engineering
  • Factor Analysis
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Industrial Engineering
  • Information Exchange
  • Information Operations
  • Information Systems
  • Job Analysis
  • Product Development
  • Task Performance And Analysis

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  • Industrial Economics
  • Systems Analysis and Design