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Globalization of Manufacturing in the Digital Communications Era of the 21st Century

Innovation, Agility, and the Virtual Enterprise

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Table of contents (67 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
  2. Sharing Experiences from Telecommunication use in Industry for Agility and Innovation

    1. Case studies and descriptions of experience with emerging technologies

      1. Cooperative Information Management for Distributed Production Nodes
        • Hamideh Afsarmanesh, Ammar Benabdelkader, L. O. Hertzberger
        Pages 13-27
      2. CAE application software moves to the WEB
        • R. Allaria, W. Aldinucci, G. Alemanni
        Pages 29-41
      3. Inter-Company Supply Chains Integration via Mobile Agents
        • D. Brugali, G. Menga, S. Galarraga
        Pages 43-54
      4. Communication in virtual supply chain teams
        • J. Carletta, R. McEwan, A. Anderson
        Pages 55-67
      5. A Distributed Order Promise and Planning System for the Virtual Enterprise
        • Américo L. Azevedo, Jorge P. Sousa, João A. Bastos, César Toscano
        Pages 69-80
      6. TeleProd: An Internet based Teleproductics system
        • João Paulo N. Firmeza, Fernando M. S. Ramos
        Pages 81-92
    2. Concurrent Product Development and Enterprise Integration

      1. Capacity Modelling for Virtual Enterprises
        • João A. Bastos, Jorge P. Sousa
        Pages 135-147
    3. Distributed Engineering Environment

    4. Access to Engineering Data

      1. Feature Based Modeling of Machining Process Products
        • F. Tanaka, T. Kishinami
        Pages 163-174
      2. Capture and Exchange of Component Information Using EXPRESS Oriented Standards
        • M. Balzer, J. Bröking, W. Wilkes
        Pages 175-186
      3. Data sharing of shape model with VRML environment
        • K. G. Kobayashi, K. Ujihara, M. Hayamizu, M. Fujii
        Pages 187-194
    5. Integration of emerging technologies and tools into existing product development

      1. An Integrated Product and Process Model
        • H. K. Tönshoff, M. Zwick
        Pages 209-219
      2. Artefact integration by concurrent enterprises and productive break-up
        • R. C. Michelini, G. M. Acaccia, M. Callegari, R. M. Molfino, R. P. Razzoli
        Pages 221-234

About this book

The International PROLAMAT Conference is an internationally well known event for demonstrating and evaluating activities and progress in the field of discrete manufacturing. Sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), the PROLAMAT is traditionally held every three years and it includes the whole area of advanced software technology for Design and Manufacturing in Discrete Manufacturing. Past editions of the International PROLAMA T Conference have explored: -Manufacturing Technology, -Advances in CAD/CAM, -Software for Discrete Manufacturing, -Software for Manufacturing. The Eight International PROLAMAT held in 1992 (Tokyo), focused on the theme of Man in CIM. The 1995 PROLAMAT (Berlin), featured the theme of Life Cycle Modelling for Innovative Products and Processes. This past emphasis on human aspects and innovation provides a strong foundation for the next PROLAMAT. Under the title: The globalization of manufacturing in the digital communications eraof the 21th century: innovation, agility and the virtual enterprise, the 1998 conference expands the PROLAMAT scope to include teams and virtual enterprises which come together across space and time to develop new products and bring them to global markets. Manufacturing issues and information models have long been part of concurrent engineering; they are increasingly important in new product innovation and in the development of manufacturing plans and processes which span multiple companies along with multiple time zones.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Trento, Italy

    Gianni Jacucci

  • Chrysler Corporation, USA

    Gustav J. Olling

  • Ben Gurion University of Negev, Israel

    Kenneth Preiss

  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

    Michael J. Wozny

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