Atanu Roy (Hewlett-Packard India) presented a case study on the application of DCOR in the automotive industry today at Supply Chain World Asia Pacific. In his presentation mr. Roy addressed the key challenges companies face when implementing collaborative design processes:

Protection of Intellectual Property
Retaining design decisions and knowledge
Synchronization of (distributed) design information

Two questions from Hartmut in Germany:
I wonder if you forgot the product ramp-up within the new DCOR 1.0 model? Shoudn’t it be positioned right after the “Integration” process? Furthermore, I think, this would be an excellent oportunity to link the DCOR- and the SCOR-model in the future?!    
Product ramp is a phase of the life-cycle of […]

Last year the supply chain council released the first extension to the SCOR model. SCOR is a set of tools to measure, analyze and improve the performance of a company’s supply chain. This first extension, DCOR, addresses the processes for designing products and services. In this article I would like to explain the meaning, purpose, […]

No, your browser hasn’t gone haywire. It simply displays the Chinese translation of “The Pursuit of Design Excellence”, the title of the article I wrote for CSD Review, a Taiwanese publication. The topic of their January 2008 issue is Collaborative Design. 
You can download the full publication here. [PDF, 6.3 MB, Chinese language only].

Somebody told me there is a SCOR for Design. Is this true, where can I find it and what is it’s scope? –Brian
SCOR for Design processes is published by the Supply-Chain Council as DCOR. DCOR stands for Design-Chain Operations Reference and provides a standard language for design processes, standard metrics and best practices. In the […]

Recently I’ve been teaching benchmarking in large BPM networks where I repeatedly encounter a couple of significant mistakes, and I thought this article presented an excellent opportunity to discuss them. There are six basic steps in benchmarking: identify sets of process networks, select the important networks and prioritize them, choose a BPM strategy, set a […]

At Supply Chain World 2006 in Dallas the Supply-Chain Council (SCC) released the first extension to SCOR: The Design Chain Operations Reference model (DCOR). This first release is based on the model conveyed to the Supply-Chain Council by Hewlett-Packard in 2004. A special interest group under leadership of John Neyre has reviewed and expanded the […]

How To Link Supply And Design? 
The technical development and steering committee of the supply chain council has chartered a team to prepare the DCOR model for official release. Some excellent work has been done to review processes and metrics, add best practices, and resolve the open question about how the SCOR engineer-to-order engineering processes would […]

Does Design Really Chain?
Children have a knack for asking about the obvious - that is, obvious to us that have been around a little longer - where it is completely obvious to me that gravity makes water spread on a flat surface, it is my daughter’s question, “Papa, why does water run out of my […]

The Perfect Design? 
A friend recently sent me the Booz Allen Hamilton special report “Money Isn’t Everything¹” on the R&D spend by companies. The authors investigate the question whether more R&D spend means better business results for companies. My interest is aroused when they talk about the innovation processes: Ideation, project selection, development and commercialization — […]