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This paper focuses on the problems underlying the integration (information wise) of manufacturers, retailers, interior decorators, and customers in the market of furniture and interior design. The problems and solutions presented account for the work being undertaken by UNINOVA under the scope of the European Commission’s (EC) ESPRIT IV project 22056 — funSTEP — “Development of a Data Model Based on STEP for the Manufacturers — Customers Integration in the Furniture Industry”.
In the CAD2 environments (CAD for Interior Design) the current scenario is that of a multitude of manufacturers (each producing a set of product lines), supplying product catalogues to a set of retailers who, in collaboration with the interior decorators, use the information contained on the catalogues to help the customer plan, design and acquire the furniture needed for its decoration project.
The subject of this paper is not only the exchange of information among several CAD2 systems, but also the problem of maintaining the information on the multi-manufacturer, multi-retailer, multi-decoration studio and multi-customer scenario.
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Pimentão, J.P., Sousa, P.A., Jardim-Gonçalves, R., Steiger-Garção, A. (1998). Integrating Manufacturer and Customer: the funSTEP way. In: Camarinha-Matos, L.M., Afsarmanesh, H., Marik, V. (eds) Intelligent Systems for Manufacturing. BASYS 1998. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 1. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35390-6_35
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