- Section 2.2: Intelligent Supply
Chain
Support for Information Management in
the Sales and Service Life-Cycle Phases of a One-of-a-Kind Product
K. Jansson, M. Anastasiou, G. Burger, I. Hartel, I. Karvonen,
M. Ollus, J. Puttonen, P. Välikangas
SMARTISAN - A New Business Paradigm Supporting
Extended Products Across the Supply Chain
A. De Oliveira, J. Fradinho Oliveira, M. De Oliveira
CREATIV: Co-Operative Product Development
in a Virtual Network
M. Winkler, G. Grau
Integrating and Co-Operating with External
Partners
N. Bubner, J. Kühnast
Innovative Internet-Based Process Model
for PLC Software Development
G. Gadda, D. Sergiano
Advanced Infrastructure for Pan-European
Collaborative Engineering
M. Bauer, H.J. Eikerling, W. Mueller, A. Pawlak, K. Siekierska,
D. Soderberg, X. Warzee
- HELCOM
Project: An Integrated eCommerce System for SMEs in Greece
K. Markellos, P. Markellou, M. Rigou, S. Sirmakessis and A. Tsakalidis
WHALES: A Project Life-Cycle Management
Application for Extended Organisations
D. Gazzotti, M. Palmirani, P. Paganelli
Support
for Information Management in the Sales and Service Life-Cycle
Phases of a One-of-a-Kind Product
Kim JANSSON(1), Maria
ANASTASIOU(3), Gerhard BURGER(4), Ingo HARTEL(4), Iris KARVONEN(1),
Martin OLLUS(1), Jari PUTTONEN(2), Pekka VALIKANGAS(2)
(1) VTTAutomation, PO Box 1301, FIN-02044 VTT Finland
(2) Fortum Engineering Ltd, Rajatorpantie 8 Vantaa, 00048 Fortum,
Finland
(3) Intracom S.A. Hellenic Telecommunications & Electronics
Industry, Markopoulo Ave. 190, 02 Peania, Attika, Greece
(4) Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETHZ - BWI, Zurichbergstrasse
18, CH-8028 Zurich, Switzerland.
This paper describes work on
supporting the sales and service life-cycle phase of one-of-e-a
kind product. The IMS-Globemen "Global Engineering and Manufacturing
in Enterprise Networks" project addresses the inter-enterprise
integration and collaboration in a global setting. Three industrial
cases are presented demonstrating work being done to enhance
inter enterprise collaboration.
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SMARTISAN
- A New Business Paradigm Supporting Extended Products Across
the Supply Chain
Alvaro DE OLIVEIRA(1),
Jorge FRADINHO OLIVERA(2). Manuel DE OLIVERA(3)
(1) Alfamicro, Alameda da Guia, no 192A, 2750-368 Cascais, Portugal
(2) Omegamedia, Alameda da Guia, no192A, 2750-368 Cascais, Portugal
(3) Computer Science Department, University College of London,
WC1E 6BT, London, UK
Despite the recent developments
of electronic market places, SMEs still need an affordable, integrated
set of WEB tools to take advantage of the new ways of doing business
in the E-Commerce environment. SMARTISAN is developing a generic
XML based service to facilitate easy access and search to a range
of systems, and support synchronised delivery of extended products
against deadlines in the wholesale and retail sectors. This service
is piloted in several varied test situations, which include food
products, decorating supplies, automotive parts and rubber components.
The Project supports the participation of both consumers and
suppliers in the generation of a new market mediation system
aiming at enhanced consumer supplier relationships. Furthermore
SMARTISAN provides a Framework for Electronic Commerce implementation
and a Roadmap to guide SMEs to understand and select the methodologies,
tools and architectures required to implement their digital business
strategy. SMARTISAN intends to accelerate and extend the digital
business trends to SMEs, microcompanies and individual professionals
(Artisans). Furthermore it will empower the customer with a wide
choice, allowing him/her total transparency across the supply
chain up to the manufacturers and access to a one "stop
shop" full service.
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CREATIV:
Co-Operative Product Development in a Virtual Network
Marcus WINKLER and
Guido GRAU
ITV Denkendorf; Koerschtalstrasse 26, 73770 Demkendorf GERMANY
The process of product development
in the textile and apparel industry usually needs several partners.
These partners have to share and to communicate their ideas in
a more and more efficient and time saving way. The internet technologies
offer new fields for the application of a prototype (search engine)
in a TRIAL project, called CREATIV. The test bed is the so-called
design network including the following partners: A printing company,
a designer, a colourist, an engraver and an apparel company (customer).
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Integrating
and Co-Operating with External Partners
Nikolaus BUBNER and
Jens KUHNAST
gedas deutschland GmbH, Pascalstr. 11, 10587 Berlin
In the context of the pilot
project ,integrated Virtual Product Creation' (iViP) supported
by the German BMBF (Federal Ministry for Education, Science,
Research and Technology), 51 partners from industry and research
develop software products supporting all phases of the product
creation process. We present two software tools for the purposes
of integration, communication and co-operation. The tool Relations
is a generic checklist and configuration utility, enabling the
user to collect easily all necessary information in order to
set up a common communication infrastructure, i.e. data about
involved applications, interchange formats, network protocols
or about the partners themselves. These data, transformed into
XML, are used to exchange partner information and to configure
involved applications automatically. Transfer is used to exchange
any kind of data of any size, structured or unstructured, including
compression and hybrid encryption.
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Innovative
Internet-Based Process Model for PLC Software Development
Gianni GADDA(1) and
Donato SERGIANO(2)
(1) DemoCenter XC. a r.l., Viale Virgilio 55, 41100 Modena, Italy
(2) Sata s.r.l., Via Notari 103, 41100 Modena, Italy
The paper proposes a new way
of working, supported by proper software tools, able to involve
the different typologies of industrial automation users: PLC
(and control systems, in general) hardware suppliers, PLC software
suppliers, PLC end users. The new process model relies on the
Internet use representing a virtual place where offers and demands
can meet and the above mentioned users can reciprocally communicate
their own experiences and their own offers. This virtual place
should particularly enhance software co-design and co-development
among different PLC software suppliers and end users through
the adoption of standard methodologies, languages and tools,
based on the IEC 113 l-3 standard, that are being tuned within
the European Project EPOMAT IST-1999-20278 (Evaluating the Performance
of an Object oriented Modelling bAsed on interneT).
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Advanced
Infrastructure for Pan-European Collaborative Engineering
M. Bauer(1), H.J.Eikerling(2),
W. Mueller(3), A. Pawlak(4,5), K. Siekierska(5), D. Soderberg(6),
X. Waxzee(7)
(1) Ifineon Technologies, Munich, Germany
(20 Siemens Business Services, Paderborn, Germany
(3) Paderborn University, Paderborn, Germany
(4) Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland
(5) Institute of Electron Technology, Warsaw, Poland
(6) FTL Systems UK Ltd, Southampton, UK
(7) Thales Optronique, Paris, France
This article presents challenges,
visions, and preliminary solutions for a true Pan-European collaborative
engineering infrastructure that is a target of the IST project
E-COLLEG. The consortium aims at the definition of a transparent
infrastructure that will enable engineers from various domains
to collaborate during the design of complex heterogeneous systems.
In this context, we introduce an advanced collaborative infrastructure
(ACI). AC1 covers dynamic Tool Registration and Management Services
(TRMS) for distance-spanning, tool integration and administration,
as well as open interfaces for XML-based dam exchange. TRMS will
constitute a backbone for E-COLLEG-related pan-European collaborative
research and engineering studies by fostering a combination of
most recent Plug-and-Play techniques employing agent-based communication
based on XML-oriented integration technologies. This new enabling
technology for collaborative engineering is validated in two
application scenarios.
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HELCOM
Project: An Integrated eCommerce System for SMEs in Greece
Konstantinos MARKELLOS,
Penelope MARKEILLOU, Maria RIGOU, Spiros SIRMAKESSIS, Athanasios
TSAKALIDIS
University of Patras, Computer Engineering and Informatics Department,
Multimedia, Graphics and GIS Lab, 26500 Patras, Greece
This paper addresses the issues
relating to the business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-business
(B2B) scenarios that have been implemented within the framework
of a research project entitled "'HELCOM - Hellenic Electronic
COMmerce ". The project aimed at providing insight to businesses
and especially to SMEs, which want to take advantage of electronic
commerce opportunities, by helping them design and implement
efficient web strategies. Our main goal is to develop methods
for creating successful B2C and B2B electronic stores. One of
the most important factors of the approach is the easy customisation
of the implemented modules to different kinds of companies (e.g.
spinning mills, raisin house, etc.). Moreover, the effectiveness
of the electronic stores (e.g. usable presentation and navigation)
is also under consideration.
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WHALES:
A Project Life-Cycle Management Application for Extended Organisations
Davide Gazzotti, Monica
Palmirani, Paolo Paganelli
Gruppo Formula Spa, Via Matteotti, S 40055 Villanova di Castenaso
(BO), Italy,
The main goal of WHALES is
to provide a planning and management infrastructure for complex
distributed organizations working as virtual enterprises on large-scale
engineering projects. The WHALES architecture is a multi-tired,
multi-layered system that will easily integrate with existing
applications that execute the intra-company processes at each
node of the network: WHALES will not replace those applications,
but will functionally link the different companies involved the
project to support and enhance the inter-company processes that
take place in such project management scenarios. WHALES offers
a web-based project environment and a rich set of functionalities
that will improve the virtual organisation, in order to achieve
faster and most effective results in the whole project life-cycle.
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