Information Infrastructure Systems for Manufacturing: Proceedings of the IFIP TC5/WG5.3/WG5.7 international conference on the Design of Information ... in Information and Communication Technology) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0412788004 ISBN 13: 9780412788000

Publisher: Springer, 1997

Synopsis

On the verge of the global information society, enterprises are competing for markets that are becoming global and driven by customer demand, and where growing specialisation is pushing them to focus on core competencies and look for partnerships to provide products and services. Simultaneously the public demands environmentally sustainable industries and urges manufacturers to mind the whole life span of their products and production resources. Information infrastructure systems are anticipated to offer services enabling and catalyzing the strategies of manufacturing companies responding to these challenges: they support the formation of extended enterprises, the mastering of full product and process life cycles, and the digitalization of the development process. Information infrastructure systems would accommodate access to and transformation of information as required by the various authorized stakeholders involved in the life phases of products or production resources. Services should be available to select and present all relevant information for situations involving any kind of players, during any life phase of a product or artifact, at any moment and at any place.

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Synopsis

This work explains the information infrastructure needed by manufacturing enterprises in order to share information and to co-ordinate decisions and control. This infrastructure should feature common methods and integrated applications for shop floor control, order processing, contract negotiation and co-operation in product and process development. The volume addresses five main topics: the co-ordination and systemization of information processing requirements and their synthesis into comprehensive conceptual models; the development of information infrastructures, amalgamating the conceptual models with computing, communication and storage technologies; the design of control architectures for interfacing information infrastructures with advanced machine tools and skillful people; conceptual modelling for extended enterprises and product life cycles; and the definition of information and communication services for enterprises co-operating in engineering and manufacturing processes.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0412788004
• ISBN 13: 9780412788000
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 470
• Editor: Goossenaerts Jan, Wortmann Johan C., Kimura Fumihiko