Information Infrastructure Systems for Manufacturing Ii: IFIP TC5 WG5.3/5.7 3rd International Working Conference on the Design of Information Systems for Manufacturing (diism'98) : May 18-20, 1998, Fort Worth, Texas Book

This book elaborates on the information infrastructure needed by manufacturing enterprises in order to share information and to coordinate decision and control. This infrastructure should feature common methods and integrated applications for shop floor control, order processing, contract negotiation and cooperation in product and process development.
Information Infrastructure Systems for Manufacturing addresses five main topics:

• The coordination and organization of information system requirements and their synthesis into comprehensive conceptual models;
• The development of reconfigurable information infrastructures, combining the conceptual models with computing, communication and storage technologies;
• The development of intelligent manufacturing systems;
• The design of models for extended enterprises and product life cycles; and
• The definition of related infrastructure services.