Traditionally, manufacturing enterprises have relied on the industry chain collaboration model to connect their research and development (R&D) activities. This involves regional and partner branch networks being separate from the network at business HQ into isolated intranet and extranet networks for information security.
However this isolation poses an array of problems that threaten how R&D works. To enable the level of collaboration that R&D requires for best possible performance, and to cut unnecessary costs and workloads that can limit an organisation’s activities in this field, technologies for R&D need to be reviewed.
