Collaborative Systems for Production Management

Just as no man is an island, so no business can operate without being part of a network of businesses proactively collaborating and sharing information for mutual success. This book presents some of the latest thinking on collaborative systems by leading experts in the field.

The business environment throughout the world is currently going through rapid and far reaching change. They are analysing their business processes and scrutinising ways to make their systems more streamlined and competitive in order to meet the challenges posed by the Global Economy. Forming close alliances and integrating the operational processes with the key suppliers and customers is the mantra every one is embodying. In parallel and to support this shift in strategic focus developers are putting forward new concepts in the emerging Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) to make the integration of processes among collaborating enterprises as seamless and secure as possible. Together these developments have yielded a tremendous amount of new knowledge and will continue to offer us new challenges and opportunities well into the future. This book brings together the opinions of a number of leading experts, analysts, academics, researchers, vendors and industrial practitioners from around the world who have worked extensively in the area of collaborative manufacturing. Through individual chapters in this book, authors put forward their views, approaches and new tools. Still, other authors present a glimpse of the nature of solutions that may be developed in the near future. This book is loosely structured to allow chapters which address common themes to be grouped together. In these chapters, the reader will learn aU the key issues currently being addressed in production management research and practice throughout the world.

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Preface. Part One: Collaboration in Supply Chain Planning. Collaborative Capacity Planning and Control in Subcontracting Networks; I.P. Tatsiopoulos. Lean Supply Chain Planning; R. Kwikkers. Supply Chain Integration: Direction, Extent and Balance; E. Selldin, J. Olhager. Collaborative Supply Chain Planning: A Case Study from the German Cutting Tool Industry; G. von Cieminski, C. Begemann, S. Lutz, M. Schneider, H.-P. Wiendahl. Collaboration in Value Creating Networks: The Concept of Collaborative Commerce; J. Eschenbächer, A. Zwegers. Part Two: Collaboration in Product Innovation. Product Development Cost Estimation and Optimization in a Global Manufacturing Environment; Y.L. Tu, S.Q. Xie. Product Family Based Coordination for Design and Production in the Supply Chain; H.J. Pels, K. Cheng. Technology Value Analysis of the Ship Design Value Stream; R.L. Storch, M. Williamson. Rapid One-of-a-Kind Product Development in a Global and Virtual Manufacturing Environment; Y.L.Tu, J.J. Kam, S.Q. Xie. Distributed and Secure Co-operative Engineering in Virtual Plant Production; J. Woerner, H. Woern. A Framework for e-Cooperating Business Agents: An Application to the (Re)engineering of Production Facilities; G.M. Gonçalves, J. Borges de Sousa, F. Lobo Pereira, P. Sousa Dias, A. Santos. Part Three: ICT Solutions for Collaborative Work. Security Integration in Inter-Enterprise Business Process Engineering; F. Biennier. Discovering Distributed Processes in Supply Chains; L. Maruster, J.C. Wortmann, A.J.M.M. Weijters, W.M.P. van der Aalst. A Web-based SMART STORE Platform for Collaborative Supply Chain Integration; S.K. Kwok, W.B. Lee, C.F. Cheung. Development of a Remote Monitoring System Using a PortablePhone for Manufacturing Support Systems; T. Kimura, Y. Kanda. Review of B2BIntegration; K. Steger-Jensen, H.-H. Hvolby. Collaborative Software Needs for Contract Manufacturers; H. Moonen, A. Zwegers. Internet-Based Integration for Collaborative Business Processes: Implementing the Technology in SMEs; M. Macchi, M. Garetti, P. Locatelli, R. Diazzi. Integrating Material and Information Flows Using a Distributed Peer-to-Peer Information System; M. Kärkkäinen, T. Ala-Risku, K. Främling. Part Four: Simulation and Modelling. A Generic Framework for Simulation of Supply Networks with Bargaining Agents; N.B. Szirbik, G.R. Wagner, J.A. La Poutré. The Path from Business Modelling to Technology Management; S. Bleck, T. Forzi, P. Laing, V. Stich. A Comparative Study of the Simulation Analysis of e-Business Implementation in Manufacturing Companies; P. Albores, P.D. Ball, J. MacBryde, U.S. Bititci. Integration of Product, Process and Functional Orientations: Principles and a Case Study; R.S. Savén, J. Olhager. Balancing of Hybrid Assembly Systems Using a Simulation Approach; G. Zülch, T. Vollstedt, R. Müller. Control of Complexity in Virtual Organizations: The Role of Enterprise Modelling; R.J. Kusters, J.C. Wortmann. Managing Bottleneck Resources in Production Networks; H.-P. Wiendahl, K. Windt, J. Lopitzsch, M. Schneider. Part Five: Advances in Production Management Systems. Assessing the Effectiveness of Knowledge Management in Virtual Manufacturing Organizations; A. Kochhar, C. Everitt. A Study on Characterization of Agile Manufacturing System with Square Array Layout of Machining Centres; S. Fujii, T. Kaihara, T. Utsunomiya. Evaluation of Interdependent Plans; K. Wienecke, V. Stich. Enhancing Collaboration through Web Enabled Performance