The paper takes the shipbuilding enterprise as the subject of study, analyzes the market pattern of world shipbuilding enterprise, presents shipbuilding virtual enterprise based on agile manufacturing according to the present situation and development trend of our shipbuilding enterprise, and describes the solution scheme of shipbuilding virtual enterprise information integration platform. The ...

In the corporate use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), deployment of enterprise systems (ESs) technology in particular, has been the most vital development towards improving an organization's effectiveness. ESs make up the value chain of an enterprise allowing the organization to become significantly flexible and efficient. This paper investigates the use of ESs to increase agi...

World-wide competition among enterprises leads to the need for new systems to perform the control of distributed manufacturing systems, through the integration of information systems and self-organisation features, in order to adapt quickly to the environment changes. This paper presents an agile and cooperative architecture for distributed manufacturing systems based in the multiagent technolo...

The demand for research and development of enterprise networks and logistics has been on an upward trajectory over the last decades. With a need for more innovative and responsive enterprise network structure, technology and supply chain to deal with an ever-changing and highly competitive market, the agility of processes, organisations and their supply chain, particularly in a manufacturing en...

The importance of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) is today far beyond any discussion in countries all over the world in European countries as well as in Asia and in USA, in Africa as well as in Latin America. To meet market demands in present and future global industrial world, manufacturing enterprises of any kind and any size must be flexible and agile enough to respond quickly to p...

This paper presents and illustrates a strategic framework for designing and operating agile networked manufacturing systems. This framework allows to collaboratively plan, control and manage day-to-day operations and contingencies in a dynamic environment. The "rst section summarizes the NetMan organizational and collaboration strategy. It consists of a dynamic business method to organize and o...

The paper addresses the design of agile cells for manufacturing low volume aircraft sub-assemblies and focuses on the problem of robust grasping and handling carbon fiber fabric. The difficulty of the manufacturing task is faced equipping the cell with two cooperative robots. Both robots use purposely developed. The paper presents in detail the adaptive end-effectors purposely developed like ro...

Today, manufacturing production systems are required to be responsive, re-configurable, adaptable, and flexible. The fulfilment of these requirements is directly related to the method used to design and develop their control applications. The paper presents the result of an investigation study to capture current techniques adopted by logic designers during the design and development of control ...