Information infrastructure systems for manufacturing II : IFIP TC5 WG5.3/5.7 Third International Working Conference on the Design of Information Infrastructure Systems for Manufacturing (DIISM'98) : May 18-20, 1998, Fort Worth, Texas

In this global society, manufacturers compete in many ways, and information infrastructures play a critical role in ensuring the right information is available at the right time and the right place to support informed decision making. The traditional approach that assumes all information can be located on a single mainframe and accessed by everybody in the enterprise has fallen by the wayside, and new infrastructures supporting extended or virtual enterprises and globally distributed supply chains are becoming increasingly vital to successful, competitive organizations. Functions, data, and information must be made be available to all without regard to location, accessibility, or the ability to view in a native format. This book is a result of a conference, which brought together a number of leading experts from around the world that work on topics related to the design, implementation, and use of information infrastructures for manufacturing. These experts presented their views on the state of the art, and on a wide variety of topics related to the title. The topics range from the establishment of a generic enterprise framework, which can be used for the design of a supporting information infrastructure to details of how geometric surfaces should be merged together. Although not an exhaustive publication, we believe that the publications in this book represent the state of the art in this research is essential reading for anyone who is attempting the design or development of an information infrastructure for all aspects of Manufacturing. Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 PERA and GERAM—enterprise reference architectures in enterprise integration....Pages 3-30 Perspectives on the future of manufacturing engineering....Pages 31-45 Vehicle CALS — results of a big challenge to virtual development....Pages 47-61 Front Matter....Pages 63-63 PRE: A framework for enterprise integration....Pages 65-78 Merging a knowledge systematisation framework with a mobile agent architecture....Pages 79-92 Framework for automatic creation of remote operations support systems....Pages 93-103 A Reference Model for Information Infrastructures....Pages 105-122 Front Matter....Pages 123-123 Distributed infrastructure and applications modelling: DIAMond....Pages 125-137 The needs and issues associated with representing and integrating multiple views of the enterprise....Pages 139-152 Information modelling using product life cycle views....Pages 153-162 A hybrid manufacturing system modeling environment using VRML....Pages 163-174 Front Matter....Pages 175-175 A virtual-reality enhanced integrated process design environment (VR-IPDE)....Pages 177-188 An overview of TEAM strategies for integrating the product realization process....Pages 189-200 CIM Framework architecture and application models....Pages 201-214 Forging die modelling using rule based system....Pages 215-227 An information system infrastructure and applications for improving white collar productivity in a steel manufacturing works....Pages 229-247 Front Matter....Pages 249-249 Simulation-based planning and control of production fractals....Pages 251-260 Network Based Production System Architecture....Pages 261-273 Authentication of product data and product components....Pages 275-286 Modeling and information structures for supervisory control of flexible manufacturing systems....Pages 287-301 Front Matter....Pages 303-303 A framework for cooperation in virtual enterprises....Pages 305-321 AeroWEB: An information infrastructure for the supply chain....Pages 323-336 Front Matter....Pages 337-337 A framework for design a virtual manufacturing enterprise and its implementation as a workbench....Pages 339-351 Development of an information technology infrastructure for extended enterprise....Pages 353-363 Integrating Enterprise Models and Models for Marketing Analysis....Pages 365-377 Coordinates: a framework for enterprise modeling....Pages 379-390 This book elaborates on the information infrastructure needed by manufacturing enterprises in order to share information and to coordinate decision and control. This infrastructure should feature common methods and integrated applications for shop floor control, order processing, contract negotiation and cooperation in product and process development. Information Infrastructure Systems for Manufacturing addresses five main topics: The coordination and organization of information system requirements and their synthesis into comprehensive conceptual models; The development of reconfigurable information infrastructures, combining the conceptual models with computing, communication and storage technologies; The development of intelligent manufacturing systems; The design of models for extended enterprises and product life cycles; and The definition of related infrastructure services. The book contains the selected proceedings of the Third International Conference on the Design of Information Infrastructure Systems for Manufacturing (DIISM'98), sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and held at Fort Worth, Texas, USA in May 1998. This valuable new book will be essential reading for researchers and all those working in production engineering, information technology for industrial enterprises, shop-floor computing and software engineering.