An Information Management Architecture for Production Planning in a Virtual Enterprise

Zhou, Quan; Ristić, M.; Besant, C.B.

doi:10.1007/s001700070009

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“…A virtual enterprise is a temporary consortium formed by real autonomous companies on the basis of strong collaboration to exploit fast changing worldwide opportunities quickly, which a single company is unlikely to realize [35]. Other definitions of the term "virtual enterprise" can be also found in [33], [17], [34], [18], [4], [13].…”

Section: Virtual Enterprisementioning

confidence: 99%

Modeling and Management of Production Networks

Zudor

Monostori

2002

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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The paper attempts to illustrate the concept behind a newly ernerging area of research, the concept of production networks. The materialization of this paradigm requires clear definitions of the tenns involved, setting up a reference architecture, design and development of supporting platfonns and appropriate control methodologies with protocols and mechanisms. The main goal of the paper is to overview the different kinds of production networks, with special emphasis on architectures, advantages and open problems.

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Section: Virtual Enterprisementioning

confidence: 99%

Modeling and Management of Production Networks

Zudor

Monostori

2002

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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“…Another positive factor of this new productive environment is the ability to pro vide quickly competitive products to market without specific manufacturing plants (productive systems -PSs) limitation [4]. In this environment, the "production planning" activity becomes crucial to ensure the proper performance and viability of VE [2] [5], and an effective planning approach is required to cope with disturbances and changes in the involved productive systems (PSs).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Production has to be oriented towards consumers' needs. In this way, technological advances and market changes have established new patterns of efficiency in production [2].…”

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confidence: 99%

Virtual Enterprise Planning System using time windows and capacity constraint concepts

Pessoa

Junqueira

Filho

et al. 2012

IECON 2012 - 38th Annual Conference on IEEE Industrial Electronics Society

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In a global market, the trend for geographical dispersion of manufacturing plants has been observed. This dispersion is motivated by the opportunity to exploit local advan tages under different viewpoints. This structure also allows for more intense interaction between plants of different productive enterprises. In this sense, the concept of Virtual Enterprise (VE) is fundamental to explore new business strategies such as "focus on core competencies", "maximal customer orientation" and "distributed production". However, in this new productive structure, there are new requirements for planning and for establishing the delivery date of the orders. To address these new requirements, this work introduces a Virtual EnterprisePlanning System (VEPS) based on "time windows" and "capacity constraints". These two concepts have been used extensively in the literature related to conventional planning systems: however, not in the VE context. In this approach, "time windows" delimit the allocation interval of the tasks in the production systems (PSs) involved, while "capacity constraint" makes the time windows feasible considering the importance of the due date.

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“…The research provided a computer aided decision support environment for rapid agile VE building. Zhou, et al 8 presented their research on information management architecture for production planning in VE. The research employed CORBA and client-server technologies to implement distributed production planning and control processes.…”

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confidence: 99%

<title>Supporting virtual enterprise design by a web-based information model</title>

Barn

McKay

et al. 2001

SPIE Proceedings

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Development of IT and its applications have led to significant changes in business processes. To pursue agility, flexibility and best service to customers, enterprises focus on their core competence and dynamically build up relationships with partners to form virtual enterprises as customer driven temporary demand chains/networks. Building the networked enterprise needs responsively interactive decisions instead of a single-direction partner selection process. Benefits and risks in the combination should be systematically analysed, and aggregated information about valueadding abilities and risks of networks needs to be derived from interactions of all partners. In this research, a hierarchical information model to assess partnerships for designing virtual enterprises was developed. Internet technique has been applied to the evaluation process so that interactive decisions can be visualised and made responsively during the design process. The assessment is based on the process which allows each partner responds to requirements of the virtual enterprise by planning its operational process as a bidder. The assessment is then produced by making an aggregated value to represent prospect of the combination of partners given current bidding. Final design is a combination of partners with the greatest total value-adding capability and lowest risk.

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An Information Management Architecture for Production Planning in a Virtual Enterprise

Cited by 15 publications

References 3 publications

Modeling and Management of Production Networks

Modeling and Management of Production Networks

Virtual Enterprise Planning System using time windows and capacity constraint concepts

<title>Supporting virtual enterprise design by a web-based information model</title>

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