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Chapter and Conference Paper
Obsolescence Management of Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) in Defence Systems
About 70 % of a system life-cycle cost is during the operations phase. Support activities, including maintenance, upgrades and repairs, are high cost items. In the past decade, performance-based contracting ha...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Technology Infrastructure for Virtual Organisation of Toolmakers
Globalisation has forced companies to work together in a new arrangement known as virtual enterprise. An Australian initiative called RELINK aims to demonstrate the methodologies and systems, that will enable ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Knowledge Management in BID Preparation for Global Engineering and Manufacturing Projects
The core competence of a global engineering and manufacturing enterprise increasingly depends on the quality of its intellectual resources and how these resources are used in critical missions such as bid prep...
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Chapter
Collaborative Networks in Australia — Challenges and Recommendations
Australia is a country with a size comparable to Europe but with less than 10% of the inhabitants. Low-density population results in relatively high cost of infrastructures and small domestic markets. Over the...
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Chapter
Farley Remote Operations Support System
Farley Cutting Systems Australia (FCSA) is a CNC machine manufacturer in Australia. The company has customers all over the world and hence needs to provide effective and responsive remote support to customers ...
