“…A current trend for manufacturing industry is shorter product life cycle, remote monitoring/control/diagnosis, product miniaturization, high precision, zero-defect manufacturing and information-integrated distributed production systems for enhanced efficiency and product quality (Cohen, 1997;Bennis et al, 2005;Goldin et al, 1998;Goldin et al, 1999;Kwon et al, 2004). In tomorrow's factory, design, manufacturing, quality, and business functions will be fully integrated with the information management network (SME, 2001;Center for Intelligent Maintenance Systems, 2005).…”