scholarly journals Planning in Virtual Enterprises

1998 ◽  
pp. 135-144
Author(s):  
W. Ortner ◽  
C. Stary
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Enterprises

Production Plan of Information Management System for Virtual Industry

2013 ◽  
Vol 765-767 ◽  
pp. 1271-1274
Author(s):  
Jing Su ◽  
Xiao Jing Li
Keyword(s):  
Information Management ◽  
Management System ◽  
Information Management System ◽  
Virtual Enterprises ◽  
Distributed Information ◽  
Planning And Control ◽  
Data Object ◽  
Basic Services ◽  
And Control ◽  
Information Manager

The information management is a crucial mission for a virtual industry in such a competitive market environment. The typical characteristic of information management is distribution, autonomy and co-operation. Based on an on-going ESPRIT project (X-CITTIC), The author presents a distributed information management architecture for production planning and control in a virtual enterprises of semiconductor manufacturing. Object technologies are widely used in its design and implementation. A detailed structure of the components in the architecture, called information managers, is also suggested and introduced. Each information manager has three elements: a data object server, a database and a group of meta-objects. The information management can provide not only basic services (e.g. read and write) but also advanced services (e.g. notification, security control, subscription and data sending). Finally the present X-CITTIC information management system is detailed introduced.

scholarly journals Value analysis as a mechanism to reduce the complexity of the selection of the resources system for Agile/Virtual Enterprises in the context of Industry 4.0

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 806-816
Author(s):  
Paulo Ávila ◽  
António Pires ◽  
Goran Putnik ◽  
João Bastos ◽  
Maria Cruz-Cunha
Keyword(s):  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Resource Selection ◽  
Selection Process ◽  
Virtual Enterprises ◽  
Value Analysis ◽  
Problem Formulations ◽  
Integration Project ◽  
Process Complexity ◽  
Final System ◽  
Selection Of

The selection of the resources system (SRS) is an important element in the integration/project of Agile/Virtual Enterprises (A/V E) because its performance is dependent of this selection, and even of its creation. However, it remains a difficult matter to solve because is still a very complex and uncertain problem. We propose that using Value Analysis (VA) in the pre-selection of resources phase represents a significant improvement of the SRS process. The current literature fails to formally address the pre-selection phase and none of the resource selection models incorporate the resources value and its consequence in the complexity of the selection process. Whereby, ours developed model with VA constitutes an innovative approach towards greater sustainability in the configuration of A/V E in the context of Industry 4.0, where a massive interconnection among enterprises is expected and consequently the increase of the selection process complexity. After the construction of a demonstrator tool for a set of the problem formulations, this paper verifies by computational results the thesis regarding the benefits of applying VA to the SRS process: VA reduces the complexity of the SRS process, even ensuring that the final system of resources achieve higher quality/value grade.

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