Virtual enterprise -- organisation, evolution and control

Article Abstract:

Advanced manufacturing concepts such as CIM, "Concurrent engineering", "Agile manufacturing" and "Virtual enterprise" have emerged. This article examines the main characteristics on which the Virtual enterprise (VE) structure depends, in accordance with environmental constraints, production process and strategic objectives. The main types of VE and especially the Consortium VE type are considered. The primary concern with VE is the overall control. A distributed and non-hierarchic control structure for a Consortium VE, allowing tasks distribution and product development management, is proposed with a multi-agent system based solution with self-organisation abilities. Keywords: Agile manufacturing; Concurrent engineering; Extended enterprise; VE; Multi-agent system

United States, Research, Brief Article, Economic research

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Networked manufacturing: the impact of information sharing

Article Abstract:

A linear programming model for designing and scheduling a virtual manufacturing and logistic network is used to analyze the impact of information sharing between manufacturing firms. It is shown that information sharing improves price-time scheduling. An illustrative example also showed a 28.2% decline in the cumulated costs of order processing when information is shared between contracts and the networking firm.

All Other Miscellaneous Manufacturing, Manufacturing industries, not elsewhere classified, Manufacturing Industries NEC, Information Systems & Theory, Analysis, Usage, Computer networks, Technology application, Information resources management, Information networks

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