Supporting the entire life-cycle of the extended manufacturing enterprise |
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Affiliation: | 1. CESE/INESC TEC, Porto, Portugal;2. Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, Porto 4200-465, Portugal;1. Department of Industrial Engineering and Systems Management, Feng Chia University, 100, Wenhwa Rd., Seatwen, Taichung City 407, Taiwan;2. Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA;3. Department of Industrial Engineering, Hanyang Universty, 222 Wangsimni-ro, Seongdong-gu, Seoul 04763, Korea;4. Department of Electronics and Computer Science, Koszalin University of Technology, ul. ?niadeckich 2, 75-453 Koszalin, Poland;1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Majlesi Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran;2. Department of Materials, Manufacturing & Industrial Engineering, Universiti Teknology Malaysia, Skudai, Malaysia;3. Department of Mechanic Bio System, Eghlid Branch, Islamic Azad University, Eghlid, Iran;4. Center of Advanced Manufacturing and Material Processing - Micro Mechanism Research Group, Department of Engineering Design and Manufacture, University of Malaya, Malaysia;5. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran |
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Abstract: | This paper presents a framework to support the full life-cycle of extended manufacturing enterprises, from creation to operation and dissolution phases. The deployment and operation of such enterprises can be compared with the concept of ‘plug-and-play’, as the internal processes and legacy systems of the companies involved are smoothly integrated within an overall business process designed, validated and executed according to a specific business opportunity. During the plug phase, the specific business requirements are elicited and integrated with the design of the extended business processes. On the other hand, in the play phase, those predefined processes are executed in order to run the extended enterprise successfully. The paper describes an application case regarding an engineer-to-order and one-of-a-kind engineering product. This scenario is common to a large number of technology-driven SMEs, and illustrates the value of the framework to exploit business opportunities that require a combination of skills and resources that do not exist in-house. The case shows how the platform addresses the two main challenges in the deployment of an extended enterprise. The first challenge is finding the right set of partners to address a new business opportunity and the design of the underlying collaborative processes. The second challenge is mostly technical, and focuses on the integration of the legacy systems of the partners participating in the network so that cooperation can take place quickly and seamlessly. |
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Keywords: | Extended manufacturing enterprise One-of-a-kind manufacturing Engineer-to-order environment Manufacturing reference model Manufacturing life-cycle framework |
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