PLANNED PTF PROJECTS

CrowdEx

INDUSTRY:

All, especially: Industrial Manufacturing, Consumer Goods, High Technology

SOLUTION:

Crowdsourcing Software Platform to enable the next evolution of product design, development and continuous improvement to a more dynamic and distributed model, resulting in the creation of better, more robust product designs in a much shorter period of time.

Collaborative online platform that enable a community of experts to sharing of ideas, design and rapidly manufacture complex systems, while safeguarding proprietary information. Intended for manufacturing industries, High-Tech Industries and consumer goods companies; both inside the enterprise for employees and partners, and outside for customers integrating social media. Implementation of novel research findings, achievements, and experience in deploying crowdsourcing models in corporate business.

A key element of the platform is a unique implementation of conceptual model-based problem solving methods, designed specially to deal with inaccurate, incomplete, and contradictory information; along with proprietary algorithms of collecting, analyzing, correlating, ranking and synthesis various types of information and data relating to collaborative design processes.

The platform contains predefined collaboration templates tailored to specific industries, design processes, product types and expert teams, supported by Expert-Based Decision-Support System constantly updated and improved.

Another unique feature of the platform is presentation and visualization of process and results of collaborative design, handling feedback and contradictory interactions between crowdsourcing participants, with robust configuration and change management mechanism.

The platform addresses fundamental problems of liability, security and confidentiality of proprietary business information regarding the products designed on the platform.