- Section 7: E-business for
Manufacturing Industry
Virtual Enterprise Co-Operation Model
for Web-Enabled Production Management for SME-Networks
P. Kalliokoski, I. Seilonen, M. Ollus, K.O. Koskinen
Global Engineering and Manufacturing
in Enterprise Networks - GLOBEMEN
J. Laitinen, M. Ollus, M. Hannus
Presentation of the IMS-project approach
to analyze and improve logistics performances in production networks
M. Rüttgers, M. Weidemann
ICT-Supported Participative Simulation
to Enable Integrated Intellectual Capital Management
F.M. van Eijnatten, R.J. van den Berg, J.B.M. Goossenaerts
An Overview of IMS-HUTOP Project
H. Tomita, S. Hata, H. Koshimizu, K. Kishimoto, T. Kaihara
Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems
P. Bunce, C. Anderson
A dynamic management methodology with
modular and integrated methods and tools for knowledge-based,
adaptive SMEs: IMS Project SYMPHONY
C. Meier, P. Jehle, I. Affolter, L. Brouyere, E. Merino, L. Sciboz,
N. Roth, J. Prieto, J. Kemp
Harmony: Coping with the Complexity of
Business Innovation
B. Söndgerath, J. Martinetz
Web Enabled Collaborative Forecast
A. de Oliveira, J. de Oliveira, M. de Oliveira
Advanced Fractal Companies use Information
Supply Chains (ADRENALIN)
J. Martinetz, D. Markfort, A. Klostermeyer, N. Brehmer
eBusiness and eCommerce Based on a Novel
Object-Oriented Database
G. Schaub
A Customisable Plug and Play Solution
for SME WEB-Enabled Interconnection
F. Bonfatti , P.D. Monari
Management of Corporate Knowledge for
Process Improvement in Manufacturing Companies
U. Fischer, D. Stokic, T. Beckmann
ICT Support for Dynamic Virtual Enterprises
in One-of-a-Kind Industries
A.S. Kazi, M. Hannus
- Managing
the Development and Engineering Changes of Complex Products in
a Distributed Engineering Environment
M. Goltz, R. Schmitt, M. Vanden Bossche
Analysing efficiencies in networked enterprises
using Information Supply Chains
P. Walsh, A. Koumpis
Virtual
Enterprise Co-Operation Model for Web-Enabled Production Management
for SME-Networks
Petri KALLIOKOSKI(1),
Ilkka SEILONEN(1), Martin OLLUS(1), Kari O. KOSKINEN(2)
(1)VTT Automation, PO Box 1301, VTT, FIN-02044, Finland
(2)Helsinki University of Technology, PO Box 5400, HUT, 02044,
Finland
The paper deals with networking
in manufacturing and is based on IMS project Gnosis-VF (ESPRIT
28448). In the paper we present a business process model of a
virtual enterprise consisting of a network of SMEs and a co-operation
model derived from and justified by the business process model.
For this purpose, the paper presents an example of an industrial
case network that applies the principles of the model. The new
information technology needed for the implementation of the presented
co-operation model contains XML, translations and semantic message
standards.
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Global
Engineering and Manufacturing in Enterprise Networks - GLOBEMEN
Jarmo LAITINEN(1), Martin OLLUS(2) and Matti HANNUS(3)
(1)YIT Construction Ltd, P.O. Box 36, FIN-00621, HELSINKI, Finland
(2)VTT Automation, PO Box 1301, VTT, FIN-02044, Finland
(3)VTT Building Technology, P.O. Box 1801, FIN-02044 VTT, Finland
The GLOBEMEN project aims to
create IT infrastructures and related tools to support globally
distributed and dynamically networked operations in one-of-a-kind
industries. The aim is to guide and encourage the industry and
IT vendors to develop and adopt improved IT infrastructures by
combining the views and requirements of various industries. The
project will demonstrate a functionality, which offers IT vendors
attractive market opportunities for product development satisfying
the needs of various industries world-wide. The measurable and
tangible objectives of the project are to: (1) define industrial
requirements and (2) compliant architectures for globally distributed
product life cycle management, customer support, project and
manufacturing management in the virtual enterprise, (3) implement
proof of concept in industrial prototypes, (4) demonstrate core
features of the architecture, and (5) promote deployment by IT
vendors, manufacturing industry, academia and standardisation.
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Presentation
of the IMS-project approach to analyze and improve logistics
performances in production networks
Dr.-Ing. Martin RÜTTGERS and Dipl.-Ing. Martin WEIDEMANN
Research Institute for Rationalization and Operations Management
(FIR)
at Aachen University of Technology, Pontdriesch 14/16, D-52062
Aachen,
The Internet represents a useful
communication tool to make cross-enterprise business processes
more transparent and to exchange essential information between
enterprises of global production networks. Therefore, one of
the main targets of the proposed IMS-project described in this
paper is the development of a method to configure an architecture
to support engineering and procurement co-operation across the
value chain. This paper will show how suitable standardized information
and communication processes will be determined across the value
chain especially to evaluate the current organizational form
of the extended enterprise. It explains how relevant performance
ratios, derivable from existing IT-systems and their environments
(ERP, SCM, e-Business), deal as the critical information input
for the management of networks and how they will enable network
coordinators to monitor, control, and improve their global networks.
Furthermore, it discusses if such a Web-enabled support technique
could also be used as a trouble shooting tool or early warning
system.
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ICT-Supported
Participative Simulation to Enable Integrated Intellectual Capital
Management
Frans M. van EIJNATTEN(1), Roelof J. van den BERG(2), and Jan
B.M. GOOSSENAERTS(1)
(1)Eindhoven University of Technology, Faculty of Technology
Management, Pav.U10-T&A, P.O.-Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven,
The Netherlands
(2)Baan Research & Development, P.O.-Box 143, 3770 AC Barneveld,
The Netherlands
This paper describes the background
and objectives of the IST project "Organizational Aspects
of Human-Machine Coexisting Systems" (HUMACS), that develops
and pilot-demonstrates a Participative Simulation environment
for Integral (i.e., logistics, technology and human factors)
Manufacturing enterprise renewal (PSIM). The PSIM project is
a full-fledged European IST project that is a part of the interregional
HUMACS project within the Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS)
research program. In the short run, HUMACS/PSIM aims to address
the key issues that have to be resolved before a virtual factory
can be implemented, and is focused on intelligent manufacturing
to assist human creativity and the application of ICT technology.
The long-term goal of HUMACS/PSIM is to show simulated assembly
lines in a software environment, to be used in assembly operations
to enable a participative improvement process involving specialized
staff, management and production personnel.
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An
Overview of IMS-HUTOP Project
Hiroshi TOMITA(1), Seiji HATA(2), Hiroyasu KOSHIMIZU(3), Katsumi
KISHIMOTO(4), and Toshiya KAIHARA(5)
(1)SANYO Electric, 1-1 Dainichi-Higashimachi, Moriguchi City,
Osaka, Japan
(2)KAGAWA University,2217-20 Shinmachi Hayashi-cho, Takamatsu
City, Kagawa, Japan
(3)CHUKYO University,101 Tokodachi Kaizu-cho, Toyota City, Aichi,
Japan
(4)DAINIPPON SCREEN Mfg., Teranouchi-agaru 4 Horikawa-dori, Kamigyo-ku,
Kyoto, Japan
(5)UMDS, 3-1 Gakuen-nishi, Nishi-ku, Kobe City, Hyogo, Japan
This project aims at establishing
an "Advanced Human Technology" framework, meant to
help design human-friendly business models, as well as manufactured
products and manufacturing systems. In order to advance toward
the next generation manufacturing system and eWork, we propose
an entirely new product life cycle concept based on the dual
viewpoints of customers and producers, which is applied technologies
that evaluate human factors like emotional and physical sensibilities,
knowledge and intelligence. It will be actualized in HUTOP concept
that it will aim to acquire the requirements of individual customers
and use them in designs, and maintain both worker's satisfaction
and productivity under coordinating human and machine and creating
a safe and comfortable working environment. Especially research
projects in the fields of manufacturing, Supply Chain Management
and eBusiness are the comprehensive parts of HUTOP, and aim to
integrate all the fields.
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Reconfigurable
Manufacturing Systems
Peter BUNCE and Charles ANDERSON
CAM-I Inc.
20 Market Street, Poole, Dorset BH15 1NF, UK
Manufacturers who can adapt
and reconfigure production lines to meet changing customer demands
quickly will be the winners in the future. This requires manufacturing
facilities to be rapidly reconfigured with an increased level
of scalable and flexible automation to meet diverse product demands.
A group of leading manufacturers in CAM-I's NGMS-IMS project
has developed a novel and valid approach. This research and development
focuses on the concept of developing a generic reference architecture
model for the specification, development, control and reconfiguration
of a manufacturing enterprise at a work cell level. It introduces
the concept of scalable flexibility in manufacturing from the
shop floor to enterprise level. The concept of a work cell is
the building block for the hierarchical synthesis of large and
complex systems at all levels of a manufacturing enterprise.
This paper examines the challenges of designing a reconfigurable
manufacturing system, discusses the concepts and the next steps.
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A
dynamic management methodology with modular and integrated methods
and tools for knowledge-based, adaptive SMEs: IMS Project SYMPHONY
Christoph MEIER(1), Petra JEHLE(1), Isabelle AFFOLTER(1), Laurent
BROUYERE(1), Esther MERINO(1), Laurent SCIBOZ(2), Norman ROTH(3),
Juan PRIETO(3), Jeroen KEMP(3)
(1) CCSO, Route du Mont-Carmel 1, 1762 Givisiez, Switzerland
Tel.: 0041 26 466 75 50; Fax: 0041 26 466 74 14;
(2) ICARE Research Institute, Techno-Pôle, 3960 Sierre,
Switzerland
(3) Fraunhofer IAO, Nobelstr.12, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
The IMS project SYMPHONY aims
at equipping its target group - high-tech or service-oriented
SMEs, or SMEs with a high information part in their value chain
- with a dynamic management methodology with modular and integrated
methods and tools supporting them in their key management processes.
The SYMPHONY methodology will support SMEs' rapid adaptation
to market and technological changes by means of dynamic and adaptive
organisational structures and increased innovation potential,
achieved through integration of knowledge in structures and products.
Therefore - from an IT point of view - the information systems
for SMEs have to be changed to integrated and multi-partner information
systems. To achieve a high level of applicability and acceptance,
SYMPHONY will develop a generic meta-model allowing dynamic exchanges
between various information systems in SMEs.
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Harmony:
Coping with the Complexity of Business Innovation
Dipl.-Wirt.-Ing. Björn SÖNDGERATH and Dipl.-Ing. Jörg
MARTINETZ
Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation, IFF
Sandtorstraße 22, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany
Fast development of internet
technologies is bringing new possibilities to use IT in industry
beyond e-commerce and logistic network management. This article
describes an Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS) project
HARMONY, that aims at improving the yield of innovation projects
via an internet/intranet based support system. Within the frame
of the HARMONY solutions entrepreneurs, support providers and
investors work together on the selected innovation projects to
considerably increase the probability of success. The system
is based on a new language of communication and sharing of the
business vision of the innovation between all stakeholders.
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Web
Enabled Collaborative Forecast
Alvaro de OLIVEIRA(1), Jorge de OLIVEIRA(2) and Manuel de OLIVEIRA(3)
(1) Alfamicro, Alameda da Guia, nº192A, 2750-368 Cascais,
Portugal
(2) Information Systems Department, London School of Economics,
WC2A 2AE London, UK
(3) Computer Science Department, University College of London,
WC1E 6BT London, UK
The relations amongst a network
of companies are changing the way business is done with the ability
to share data and knowledge with mutual benefits. Sustained competitiveness
is driven by the flexibility of such collaboration mechanisms
to provide customer satisfaction with lower costs while minimising
stock holding and reducing wastage (e.g. food past its sell date)
or mark-downs (e.g. end season sales of clothing). This paper
addresses the underlying processes and supporting technologies
which empower the supply chain organisation with powerful decision
support tools based on accurate forecasting enhanced by collaborative
business processes (ECF). The management issues involved and
the methodology to overcome the existing barriers will be reported.
It will be demonstrated how the pervasive Internet technologies
together with an advanced but user friendly forecasting engine
can bring under control the uncertainty driven by market changes.
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Advanced
Fractal Companies use Information Supply Chains (ADRENALIN)
Jörg MARTINETZ, Dirk MARKFORT, Axel KLOSTERMEYER, Nick BREHMER
Fraunhofer-Institute for Factory Operation and Automation, IFF
Sandtorstrasse 22, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany
This paper describes the content
of the ADRENALIN project, that was set up within the 5th Framework
of the European Commission in the Information-Society-Technology-Programme.
The vision of the ADRENALIN project it to open a new field for
the Fractal Company concept in networked organisations, based
on a modular and adaptive architecture and innovative information
technologies. The resulting ADRENALIN Company framework will
enable a market and opportunity driven reconfiguration of the
supply chain. The ADRENALIN project aims at contributing to the
development of real benefits in networked organisations in the
context of globalisation and co-operation demands and efforts
of European SMEs in order to guarantee competitiveness on international
level. It deals with multi-party Supply Chain Management in networked
enterprises. The problem tackled within this project is the function-orientation
that the members of a networked enterprise currently show, that
disables them from developing real benefits from this organisational
structure.
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eBusiness
and eCommerce Based on a Novel Object-Oriented Database
Gerhard SCHAUB
Diconsult GmbH, Grubmühlerfeldstraße 14c, 82131 Gauting,
Germany,
e-Commerce systems usually
deal with the Internet based selling of goods but do not take
into account the whole of the supply chain management. In contrast
this paper describes how e-Business and e-Commerce are combined
with distributed e-Manufacturing based on a novel object-oriented
database, This approach provides interesting solutions especially
for small and medium companies because it is much cheaper than
a RDBMS based system. The database runs entirely in main memory,
is extremely fast but at the same time reliable and flexible.
An example from the toy industry is shown comprising prediction
of sales data, logistics and cost optimisation, production planning
and control which extend available ERP systems. Via Internet
the system provides not only the exact status of customer and
production orders but also the ordering and automatic production
of goods.
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A
Customisable Plug and Play Solution for SME WEB-Enabled Interconnection
Flavio BONFATTI - Paola Daniela MONARI
Dept. of Engineering Sciences, University of Modena and Reggio
Emilia,
via Campi 213/B, 41100 Modena Italy
Fabio GOLLINI
Democenter, viale Virgilio 55, 41100 Modena Italy
Small-medium manufacturing
enterprises are ever more requested to work with a network of
subcontractors, due to the need of specialising their work. Such
network already exists but usually bases on an informal agreement
that becomes stronger during time, when collaboration opportunities
grow. SME networks need to share a lot of information in order
to improve their collective work but it is also necessary to
keep each factory independent from each other. We here will give
a description of the solutions proposed during GNOSIS- VF EP
project. Particularly, we'll refer to the Italian Test case.
The resulting set of models and tools has been conceived in order
to enable a run time configuration of the system, so as to dynamically
adapt it to the Virtual Factories needs, that are supposed to
change during time. The configuration facilities are an effective
way of intending plug and play SW tools, when they need to support
a changing environment. By means of configuration it is not necessary
to re-install any tool, it will be sufficient to correctly configure
it.
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Management
of Corporate Knowledge for Process Improvement in Manufacturing
Companies
Ulli FISCHER¹,
Dragan STOKIC² and Thomas BECKMANN²
¹DaimlerChrysler AG, Mercedesstr. 133, E306/VEM, 704546
Stuttgart, Germany
²ATB-Bremen, Wiener Str.1, 28359 Bremen, Germany
The paper presents the development
of two innovative methods and tools for the effective management
of corporate knowledge needed to support the main process improvements
steps, specifically for manufacturing processes. This development
is currently carried out in the scope of the IST project PICK.
The objective is to develop a method and tool for the capturing
and utilisation of knowledge for identification of the reasons
of problems, and a method and tool for management of knowledge
for planning of actions to eliminate the reasons of problems
and improve processes. These methods & tools will be tested
within the real industrial environments of three large automotive
and aerospace companies, end-users in the consortium, addressing
several business cases. The main approach is to combine model
based and heuristic methods for knowledge management with advanced
multimedia and information/knowledge integration technologies.
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ICT
Support for Dynamic Virtual Enterprises in One-of-a-Kind Industries
Abdul Samad KAZI and
Matti HANNUS
1VTT Building Technology, P.O. Box 1801, FIN-02044 VTT, Finland
This paper presents some initial
efforts from the recently started research project GLOBEMEN,
whose focus is on defining and providing information and communications
technology (ICT) support for dynamic virtual enterprises in one-of-a-kind
industries. An exploration of the state of the art in ICT in
terms of methods, models, and tools for distributed engineering
is presented as a first step to identify the currently available
functionality. Furthermore, an elaboration of the missing functionalities
that will be harnessed/developed within GLOBEMEN is made. It
is noted that the much-needed functionality of data/information
exchange between heterogeneous systems was lacking. This is a
core functionality that needs to be provided amongst others,
to enable smooth operability of virtual enterprises in one-of-a-kind
industries.
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- Managing
the Development and Engineering Changes of Complex Products in
a Distributed Engineering Environment
Michael GOLTZ(1), Reinhard SCHMITT(2) and Michel VANDEN BOSSCHE(3)
(1)Institut fuer Maschinenwesen, TU Clausthal, Robert-Koch-Strasse
32, D-38678 Clausthal, Germany
(2)Siemens SGP Verkehrstechnik GmbH, VT5 FW6, Eggenberger Str.
31, A-8021 GRAZ, Austria
(3)Mission Critical SA, Wijnegemhofstraat 199, B-3071 Erps-Kwerps,
Belgium;
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- This paper presents a concept
to improve the management of developing complex product s in
a distributed engineering environment. It will show a product
data driven engineering workflow that is able to manage engineering
tasks across company boarders. This approach is based on parameters,
presenting the smallest product model element, and a user category
concept to address tasks to the right persons. In addition, a
concept for an architecture of a web-based Distributed Workspace
will be given.
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- Analysing
efficiencies in networked enterprises using Information Supply
Chains
Patrick WALSH(1) and Adamantios KOUMPIS(2)
(1)Prutech Innovation Services Ltd, Sunaura House, 1 Meath road
Bray Co. Wicklow, Ireland. (2) Unisoft S.A. Research Programmes
Division Michael Kalou 6 GR 546 29 Thessaloniki,
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- In this paper we present work
carried out in the wider context of the IST ADRENALIN project,
to facilitate formation and lifecycle management of networked
enterprises (i.e. networks of suppliers and providers, clusters
of contracting companies, Plug-In Enterprises, etc.). The concept
of the Information Supply Chain comes from the IT world and has
been developed as part of previous EU RTD activity in the ESPRIT4
Programme. Enterprise Information Supply Chains are important
communication entities in Fractal Companies; their efficiency
and optimisation will have very significant effect on the design
and performance of the enterprises concerned (and in particular
on networked organisations). The fractal concept leverages the
fact that corporate entities within a company tend to replicate
themselves and their characteristics from the micro (working
cell) level through to the (macro) corporate enterprise.
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