Innovative design and knowledge reuse are the most competitive instruments of global engineering and manufacturing. Industrial challenges include cutting lead times for product development, improving innovation, increasing stakeholder involvement, facilitating life-cycle knowledge sharing and proactive collaboration, and enabling services composition and management. Current IT solutions for product lifecycle management fail to meet these challenges because they are built to perform routine information processing, rather than support agile creative work. AKM provides the approach, methodology, and platform to build industrial platforms. Industrial platforms are visual web solutions with services for industrial collaboration. Customer approaches, methodologies and platforms are composed and configured by activating enterprise knowledge.

The above view is an example of a scaffolding model, built in customer delivery projects to capture present business operations, information flows and system architectures. The next step is Solutions Modeling to build holistic active knowledge models for more agile solutions.

Why AKM?

Capitalise your human resources

Harness your core competence

Improve staff motivation and skills

Support more effective innovation

Reduce product design lead time

Realize the potentials of collaborative product platforms

Realize your enterprise knowledge architecture

Make IT your competitive advantage

Build project and product platforms

Build reusable project services

Company Vision and MissionOur vision is to empower industrial projects to build their own configurable collaboration spaces and product platforms and services.The AKM Approach, CPPD Methodology and AKM Platform support collaborative businesses (c-Business). AKM enables model-designed and model-generated workplaces and services, configurable collaboration spaces, enterprise knowledge architectures, dynamic visual language composition, powerful view handling, task execution, and visual work management. Allowing new ways for project managers, designers, engineers and business people to interact, learn and work, through proactive collaboration!

Value PropositionThe benefits of applying the AKM approach, methodologies and platforms include:

Cut IT costs dramatically, particularly for networked partnering

Reduce time-to-market for new products by 20 to 30 %

Support on-the-job training, preparing workers for more aggressive bidding

Support goal-oriented team-working, raising people’s motivation

Increasing stakeholder involvement, user interactions and interoperability

Capturing core competence and skills that otherwise remain in the heads of people

Product Design Methodology

Through years of experience working with designers from many disciplines, we have developed a solid methodology for Collaborative Product and Process Design (CPPD). CPPD consists of configurable components supporting methodologies for product and process design, workplace design and generation, and communication. CPPD provides visual languages to capture enterprise knowledge as active models. AKM provides several useful techniques that are not available in other modeling languages and platforms.

The unique view management capabilities of the AKM platform enables each person to access models through views adapted to any role. No other technology supports similar interdisciplinary knowledge communication and management.

Active Knowledge Modeling PlatformThe AKM Platform uses the Metis Enterprise modeling platform from Troux Technologies Inc. Families of AKM platforms are customized according to unfolding product design knowledge represented in visual models. Existing applications, services, and business processes are plugged into agile solutions in a model-driven way. The unique modeling techniques of AKM ensure that business users, not IT support, control the services.

Products and ServicesAKM solutions will be delivered to customers in joint projects. Projects follow the steps of the AKM Approach, applying the CPPD Methodology, utilizing and adapting the AKM Platform in concert with existing tools and methodologies as preferred by the customer.

MarketsAKM currently offers solutions for innovative companies, OEMs and suppliers in different tiers, primarily in these industry sectors Automotive, Construction, Maritime and Aerospace.AKM invites partners to use our technology to build specialized solutions for other industry sectors and cultures.Contact us

Frank Lillehagen Mobile: +47 917 55249

F.Lillehagen@ akmodeling.com

Stefano Tinella Mobile: +39 3335892930

S.Tinella@ akmodeling.com

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AKM Company MissionEnabling Proactive Collaboration Support