Today's manufacturers tend to use integrated manufacturing systems in order to achieve the capability to quickly respond to customer's requirements and produce high quality products in the shortest possible time and at the lowest possible cost. However, due to insufficient resources, manufacturing Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are having difficulties in achieving this flexibility and competing with large companies. By integrating the manufacturing resources of many partners, which may be located in different regions, SMEs can form a global SME network to achieve the competitive edge. This need for the integration of globally distributed manufacturing resources across enterprise boundaries has been conceptualised with an integration concept of Virtual Computer Integrated Manufacturing (VCIM). / VCIM extends Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) system to the next stage of virtual enterprise, and aims to provide the capability to quickly respond to customers' product orders based on working status information of distributed resources in real time. In a VCIM system, manufacturing resources may belong to different partner enterprises, or be located at different areas, but all have the intention of working together to achieve market screen. The emphasis of VCIM is to integrate many manufacturing resources and provide cohesive services for customers who may be at different locations. / Thesis (PhD)--University of South Australia, 2007.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/267139 |
| Creators | Wang, Dongsheng. |
| Source Sets | Australiasian Digital Theses Program |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Rights | copyright under review |
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