26th International Association for Management of Technology Conference - IAMOT 2017

Wikipedia is by for the most popular website and one of the most widely viewed sites of any kind of the world. Wikis also became a collaborative tool in many companies to collect, organise, share, review and approve various forms of information. Internal know-how can be handled without loss of information to external persons. Links to open literature, standards, internal reports or documents (drawings) and search for experts in a particular field can be managed by such a groupware system. The presentation/paper describes the development of a wiki-based knowledge system for tool making, i.e. sheet metal forming, stamping, common die materials, FEM-simulation etc. The system should avoid losses of knowledge in cases of retirement, especially in a the world of tool making, which is rather non-structured and mainly based on practical experiences. However, by a proper design using well defined categories and chapters, it is also possible to create a flexible education or training system for young engineers.