In today's business, consumers are challenging manufacturers by increasingly demanding low volumes of innovative, fashionable and inexpen- sive products; adopting high quality standards; responding in smaller intervals of time, and with high configurability and parameterization. This omnipresent scenario poses challenging opportunities for collaborative networked organiza- tions. The present paper addresses the main collaborative business processes tailored for responsiveness and efficient use of knowledge on customized manufacturing environments through a lean-based framework proposal for collaborative networks inspired in the Set-Based Concurrent Engineering (SBCE) methodology. In particular this work describes the ongoing imple- mentation of the proposed concepts through a web-based collaborative portal.
['João Bastos', 'Américo Azevedo', 'Paulo Ávila']
Towards a Customer-Driven Value Chain Framework - A Set-Based Oriented Approach