REAL-TIME, COOPERATIVE ENTERPRISES: REQUIREMENTS AND SOLUTION APPROACHES

Real-time, Cooperative Enterprises

In addition of the four main R&D directions, i.e., adaptive manufacturing, digital manufacturing, knowledge-based manufacturing, and networked manufacturing, emphasised by the European initiative Manufuture, two additional requirements, i.e., the real-timeness and cooperativeness of production structures are also outlined in the paper, which are of high and increasing importance. The paper high...

Real-time, cooperative enterprises for customised mass production

1 The paper discusses the main requirements that are posed by customized mass production towards managing production networks. Special emphasis is put on real-time, cooperative behaviour. We present a large-scale national industry-academia R&D project aimed at improving the performance of a production network that produces consumer goods in large quantities and variability. An integrated approa...

Real Time Enterprises: A Continuous Migration Approach

Business Process Learning for Real Time Enterprises

Smart Items in Real Time Enterprises

As you may know, in today’s enterprises many business processes are supported by software systems. Just think of a system that automatically orders machine spare parts ensuring continuous production, and at the same time optimizes warehouse utilization and asset costs of the given company. Traditional enterprise software systems rely on manual collection of data. Since manual data collection is...