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In reponse to the recent posting regarding electronic publishing by Austin Tate <bat@aiai.edinburgh.ac.uk>:
I have been working on a series of electronically published newsletters in the areas of Integrated Product Development, Kaizen, and Rapid Prototyping. We plan to add Knowledge Based Design. These "ALERTS" are published through our company's worldwide electronic mail. Compilation of material is also electronic - through our library's access to on-line databases. After creating a profile the search is run automatically. There are many more subtle issues in publishing electronically than I would have guessed before I started. To develop an intelligent way to go about electronic publishing, which here links our R&D center to our operating divisions, we have been slowly developing an Enhanced Quality Function Deployment analysis (a la Clausing) to map the needs to the how-tos. This work is carried out informally between the Integrated Product Development group, our library (Information Services), and the Information Systems group.
I have written a vision of the relationship between the library, R&D and our operating units. Please forward your name and e-mail address and I'll send it.
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