Eurostep participates in several research and development projects that focus on how to work in a virtual enterprise. One such project is VIVACE (Value Improvement through a Virtual Aeronautical Collaborative Enterprise). VIVACE is funded by the European Commission under FP6. Sixty-five partners from eleven countries are currently participating in this international project. Additional information related to this project can be found at www.vivaceproject.com.

The main result of the project is an aero-nautical collaborative design environment and associated processes, models, and methods. The VIVACE project’s objectives are to develop advanced capabilities for knowledge enabled engineering, multidisciplinary design, optimization design to decision objectives, and engineering data management. In addition, the project is meant to define the requirements for a Distributed Information Systems Infrastructure for large enterprise and Collaboration Hub for heterogeneous enterprises. Eurostep has provided Share-A-space as an information integration hub. More information about the VEC-Hub (Virtual Enterprise Collaboration Hub) is found at: www.vec-hub.org

 Collaborative Change Management in the Virtual Enterprise,
Enabling the Best Partner Vision
by Jonas Rosén and Fredrik Almyren, Paper presented at the Nordic Conference on Product Lifecycle Management 2009

 Implementing the Engineering Collaboration Hub
Article published in the ProductData Journal, No. 2 2008, written by Fredrik Almyren, Jonas Rosén, Per Brorson