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Introduction
On the verge of the global information society, enterprises are competing for markets that are becoming global and driven by customer demand, and where growing specialisation is pushing them to focus on core competencies and look for partnerships to provide products and services. Simultaneously the public demands environmentally sustainable industries and urges manufacturers to mind the whole life span of their products and production resources. Information infrastructure systems are anticipated to offer services enabling and catalyzing the strategies of manufacturing companies responding to these challenges: they support the formation of extended enterprises, the mastering of full product and process life cycles, and the digitalization of the development process. Information infrastructure systems would accommodate access to and transformation of information as required by the various authorized stakeholders involved in the life phases of products or production resources. Services should be available to select and present all relevant information for situations involving any kind of players, during any life phase of a product or artifact, at any moment and at any place.
Keywords
Manufacturing Manufacturing System business information processing research & development (R&D)
Editors and affiliations
- Jan Goossenaerts
- Fumihiko Kimura
- Hans Wortmann
- 1.BETA — Institute for Business Engineering and Technology ApplicationEindhoven University of Technology, University of TwenteEindhoventhe Netherlands
- 2.The University of TokyoTokyoJapan
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