Tenix Defence, one of Australia's largest defence contractors, depends on winning bids and managing contracts for long-lifecycle engineering projects. The ability to capture, manage and deliver project knowledge in explicit formats is crucial to its success. Tenix is moving from a paradigm of...

PLM (Project Lifecycle Management) refers to the computer-aided management of the information life-cycles of complex and costly projects. Things requiring management include definitions of products, their structural subassemblies and components, plus associated technical data, drawings,...

This is a three part presentation describing the development of a support engineering knowledge management system for the fleet of 10 ANZAC frigates engineered and constructed by Tenix Defence for the Australian and New Zealand Navies. Part 1 describes the nature of the knowledge that needs to...