Model of intangible production network for competence development

Abstract

In the knowledge-based economy intangible production (de-materialised production) plays the main role. Intangible production is an advanced manufacturing process performed on the information level, where input materials, semi products and final products are in a digital form. The production network consists of nodes, each of which performs processing of information and knowledge through collaboration with other nodes. The paper focuses on the kind of intangible production where the production process utilizes different types of knowledge and competence is the final product. The educational organizations and distance learning are a good example of this type of the intangible production. In the paper a model of intangible production network for competence development in the context of educational organization is discussed. The proposed approach can be used to develop and manage knowledge-base systems on the level of ontology. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.