Information Infrastructure Systems for Manufacturing: Proceedings of the IFIP TC5/WG5. 3/WG5. 7 International Conference on the Design of Information Infrastructure Systems for Manufacturing, DIISM '96 Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 15-18 September 1996

On the verge of the global information society, enterprises are competing for markets that are becoming global and driven by customer demand, and where growing specialisation is pushing them to focus on core competencies and look for partnerships to provide products and services. Simultaneously the public demands environmentally sustainable industries and urges manufacturers to mind the whole life span of their products and production resources. Information infrastructure systems are anticipated to offer services enabling and catalyzing the strategies of manufacturing companies responding to these challenges: they support the formation of extended enterprises, the mastering of full product and process life cycles, and the digitalization of the development process. Information infrastructure systems would accommodate access to and transformation of information as required by the various authorized stakeholders involved in the life phases of products or production resources. Services should be available to select and present all relevant information for situations involving any kind of players, during any life phase of a product or artifact, at any moment and at any place. Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Vehicle CALS --A big challenge to virtual development....Pages 3-10 Changes in the industrial environment and CALS....Pages 11-19 Perspectives on Manufacturing Engineering Software Integration....Pages 20-31 Trends in Manufacturing Control....Pages 32-43 Front Matter....Pages 45-45 Integration of product life cycle views on the basis of a shared conceptual information model....Pages 47-58 CIMOSA process model for enterprise modelling....Pages 59-68 A Formal Requirements Engineering Framework for CIM Infrastructures Reengineering....Pages 69-80 A Supporting Enterprise Infrastructure Using STEP Technologies....Pages 81-90 On reference modelling of integrated manufacturing systems using OOA....Pages 91-102 Metamodels for Information System Modeling in Production Environments....Pages 103-114 Comparison of Enterprise Modelling Methodologies....Pages 115-127 Bottom-up Modelling with CIMOSA....Pages 128-139 Modeling and Reorganizing of Process Chains Using CIMOSA....Pages 140-151 Front Matter....Pages 153-153 The system integration architecture: A framework for extended enterprise information systems....Pages 155-168 A Model Based Approach to Enterprise Wide Information Support....Pages 169-180 The Glue Logic: An Integrated Programming/Execution Environment for Distributed Manufacturing Work-Cell Control System....Pages 181-192 A framework for connecting work and information infrastructure....Pages 193-205 An Extensible Reference Model for Data Integration....Pages 206-217 Front Matter....Pages 219-219 Value System Redesign: System oriented management and enterprise integration in globally distributed manufacturing networks....Pages 221-230 Confidence in a Network of Cooperating Companies -- QM-Documentation for Certification....Pages 231-241 Front Matter....Pages 219-219 Applying Information Technology to Minimise Risks in Satisfying Organisational Needs....Pages 242-253 Simulation supported business process performance assessment....Pages 254-264 Key driven business reengineering — How to get reengineering more efficient and effective....Pages 265-274 Front Matter....Pages 275-275 Generation of milling data in a virtual manufacturing framework....Pages 277-288 Framework Services for Design Data and Design Flow Management....Pages 289-300 The Concept of a Design and Planning Platform....Pages 301-312 EXPRESS definition of Vectorial Tolerancing in product modelling....Pages 313-324 Front Matter....Pages 325-325 Shop floor Systems Integration Reference Frameworks & Life-cycle Support Tools....Pages 327-334 Multiprotocol Ethernets on the Shop-Floor....Pages 335-343 Events in CIMOSA and the CCE platform....Pages 344-355 Adaptable Low Cost Shop-Floor Control System for Central and East European Companies....Pages 356-368 Front Matter....Pages 369-369 Information infrastructure services for small and medium size manufacturers: The MI 2 CI project....Pages 371-382 Environmental information systems based on physical flows....Pages 383-394 Strategies to develop a telemonitoring technology for machine tools via the World Wide Web....Pages 395-406 Front Matter....Pages 407-407 Globeman21 : Enterprise Integration for Global Manufacturing towards the 21st Century....Pages 409-417 Next Generation Manufacturing Systems in the IMS Program....Pages 418-430 Holonic Manufacturing Systems....Pages 431-438 GNOSIS: Knowledge Systematization; Configuration Systems for Design and Manufacturing....Pages 439-451 Back Matter....Pages 453-456 The possible benefits, the external characteristics, and the broad-range requirements of information infrastructure systems for intelligent manufacturing systems are widely known. However, it is recognised that various problems are impeding achievement in this area, including lack of understanding and agreement about techniques and methods for coordinating and systemizing the broad-range information processing requirements, and for synthesising these development of information infrastructures amalgamating the conceptual models and computing/communication/storage technologies, and the development of intelligent manufacturing systems amalgamating the information infrastructures with advanced machine tools and skillful people. This publication elaborates on these issues and affords a greater understanding of, and agreement about, methods, contributions, sourced from reknowned experts, are focussed on some of the most relevant research and development issues. The book will provide a useful foundation of information for further research and development on information infrastructure systems for manufacturing The possible benefits, the external characteristics, and the broad-range requirements of information infrastructure systems for intelligent manufacturing systems are widely known. However, it is recognised that various problems are impeding achievement in this area, including lack of understanding and agreement about techniques and methods for coordinating and systemizing the broad-range information processing requirements, and for synthesising these development of information infrastructures amalgamating the conceptual models and computing/communication/storage technologies, and the development of intelligent manufacturing systems amalgamating the information infrastructures with advanced machine tools and skillful people. This publication elaborates on these issues and affords a greater understanding of, and agreement about, methods, contributions, sourced from reknowned experts, are focussed on some of the most relevant reserach and development issues. The book will provide a useful foundation of information for further research and development on information infrastructure systems for manufacturing