DBM 380 Case Study General Motors

How general Motors is collaborating online

1) For any Car manufacturing industries needs to go through a frontal crash test. General Motors had also builds prototypes which cost around million dollars for each car and test how they react to frontal crashes these cars, makes improvements, then make new prototypes and crashes them again.

By these crashes GM gets many information for their new design and test results, which they have to share it among around 20000 designers and engineers located in hundreds of divisions and department at 14 design labs, some of them situated in different countries. Communication and collaboration is needed with design engineers of more than 1000 key vendors (suppliers. They had solved the design process and...