I. AbstractManufacturingplays a central role in successfully competing in international markets. Improving a company '5 manufacturing capability and, consequently itsposture in global markets, requires that the company respond more rapidly to market opportunities. The rate at which new product ideas mature to commodity status is increasing, resulting in a growing emphasis on time-to-market as a key competitive dfferentiator. Realizing these new efficiencies in product development requires that organizations interconnect, software systems interoperate, and individuals interact. These challenges are being addressed by the National Industrial Information Infrastructure Protocols (NIJIP) Consortium in its work to define and develop virtual enterprise technology. This paper presents an overview ofNIIIP technology and discusses aprogram deploying NIIIP technology to establish new standardsfor integrating manufacturing applications, f ocusing on manufacturing execution systems.A recognized position ofleadership in applying inventive and innovative skills to generate new design concepts does not always translate into successful products. Failure to execute efficiently -to translate concepts into manufacturable products -often limits an organization's ability to be competitive in global economies and markets [12].Improving manufacturing requires new levels of flexibility and responsiveness in identifying and addressing emerging market opportunities; this capability is often referred to as agile manufacturing. Customer requirements, product designs, suppliers, manufacturing equipment, and trade regulations continually change and addressing and exploiting these changes directly impacts product success and market share [6].Today, the incompatibility of information processing systems and technology is one of the major inhibitors to agile manufacturing. Tracing threads ofinformation flow and flow discontinuities, throughout an enterprise will show varying degrees of agility. The past several decades have produced impressive advancements in information technologies that have, in turn, enabled advances in automating product development. However, these same information technologies that were once leading instruments of progress are now 20 SPIE Vol. 2913 • 0-8194-2315-7/97/$10.00 Downloaded From: http://proceedings.spiedigitallibrary.org/ on 06/17/2016 Terms of Use: http://spiedigitallibrary.org/ss/TermsOfUse.aspx
This paper presents an approach to information mediation in the industrial domain resulting from the NIIIP infrastructure. In this environment, representations of computing resources normally managed behind distinct organizational "firewalls" are shared by members of a Virtual Enterprise. Issues o( descriptive heterogeneity, multiple sources of control, and semantic mismatch are addressed by providing a common representation of both physical resources and natural language tokens as linked objects. The focus of this paper is on the algorithm or "stopping rule" that causes the mediation portion of the system to be invoked to learn to resolve object/action level conflicts by adding high-level abstractions in the form of "triplet tokens" to the Virtual Enterprise's Knowledge Base Management System.
This paper describes the result of a research and development effort supported by IBM under Contract #S919FM81 and carried out jointly by the Database Systems Research and Development Center of the University of Florida and the Design Research Center of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. It provides the motivation forintegrating two technologies (OSAM*.KBMS and ROSE) which were separately developed at these two centers for supporting computer integrated engineering and manufacturing applications. The similarities, differences, and the complementary nature of these two technologies are described. The integrated system which consists of a graphical user interface, a query processor, an object manager, a dictionary manager, and a storage manager is described.The system has been implemented and demonstrated in a network of Sun and IBM RSl6000 workstations.
We present a viable approach to add rules capability or object orientation to legacy databases. Using a combination of language compilation, run-time trigger mechanisms and inter-language call facility, we integrate an object-oriented logic programming language, called OOLP, with an existing CIM Database System Product, IBM’s CIM CDF. The result is a system that provides storage management of complex objects, rule-based validation, object oriented knowledge modelling and declarative query capability.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.
hi@scite.ai
10624 S. Eastern Ave., Ste. A-614
Henderson, NV 89052, USA
Copyright © 2024 scite LLC. All rights reserved.
Made with 💙 for researchers
Part of the Research Solutions Family.