Enterprise Resource Planning or ERP is the practice of consolidating an enterprise’s planning, manufacturing, sales and marketing efforts into one management system. It attempts to integrate all departments and functions across a company onto a single computer system that can serve all those different departments' particular needs. This paper proposed an intelligent ERP system by integrating en...

Reengineering is a concept that is applicable to all industries, particularly information and communication technology (ICT) projects regardless of organizational type, size, culture, or location. The enterprise resource planning (ERP) system frequently requires organizations to change their existing business processes to harmonize them its functional activities. 72% of the ERP implementation f...

dynamic cellular manufacturing systems,   mixed-integer non-linear programming,   production planning, manufacturing attributes   this paper presents a novel mixed-integer non-linear programming model for the design of a dynamic cellular manufacturing system (dcms) based on production planning (pp) decisions and several manufacturing attributes. such an integrated dcms model with an extensive c...

The paper is focused mainly on ERP and MES integration and is structured in the following way. Firstly the background on ERP and MES Evolution is presented. Then, MES functionalities are analyzed and a modified functionality model is suggested. After that a pertinent issues of ERP and MES are treated. In the final section will be discussed decisive findings and future trends of MESs, which are ...

This paper shall explore the fundamental science behind the ever changing global supply chain. An analogous view of supply chain evolution to that of organic survival theory yields philosophies and methods for achieving strategic advantage and tactical superiority. Manufacturing execution systems (MES) are helping manufacturers bridge the gaps between the shop floor, the supply chain and the ER...

This paper shows the challenges encountered by small and medium companies using e-business as well as e-manufacturing in order to remain flexible, fast and competitive. The combination of a standard ERP and a customised manufacturing execution system based on a novel object-oriented real-time database is the ultimate solution for many applications. It provides high flexibility at a reasonable p...

Advanced enterprise integration applications enable companies to leverage real-time information exchange between the business layer and the production layer to increase operational efficiency.

A reliable maintenance system is critical to maintain an acceptable level of profit and competition. One of those techniques that are gaining a lot of interest in the manufacturing field is Non-Destructive Testing (NDT). In this work we propose an approach to integrate NDT into the development process of intelligent manufacturing systems. We propose an extension of ANEMONA, a multi-agent based ...

Globalization and mass-customization is shaping a new kind of e-business for manufacturing and service organizations alike. Enterprises are strongly conditioned by unpredictable changes in the markets. The raising question is how to provide efficient, cost-effective and customer-oriented solutions on time. In fact, current systems such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) and supply chain mana...

Due to today’s turbulent environment, manufacturing resources, particularly in assembly, must be reconfigured frequently. These reconfigurations are caused by various, partly cyclic, influencing factors. Hence, it is important to evaluate the innovation ability the capability of resources to implement innovations quickly and efficiently without large expense of manufacturing resources. For this...