Framework for Cross-Site Learning to Enable Knowledge Transfer in Production Networks

Product value chains are increasingly distributed globally, which requires companies to operate in production networks. Thereby, the cross-site transfer of globally distributed knowledge is a significant competitive advantage but still a major challenge. This paper summarizes requirements for the knowledge transfer in production networks and derives key challenges of cross-site learning. Furthermore, an overview of the most recent approaches is given and a framework for an efficient and user-friendly knowledge transfer is proposed.