Knowledge and Skill Chains in Engineering and Manufacturing: Information Infrastructure in the Era of Global Communications (IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology)

✍ Scribed by Eiji Arai, Eindhoven University of Technology, Fumihiko Kimura, Keiichi Shirase

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 389
• Series: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book explores knowledge and skill chains in engineering and manufacturing in the age of global communications. Information infrastructure involves a range of activities from product planning, engineering, and manufacturing trough transportation, marketing, and repair/upgrade to returns and recycling/disposal. Distinct from the traditional engineering database, life-cycle support information has its own characteristic requirements, -- flexible extensibility, distributed architecture, multiple viewpoints, long-time archiving, and product usage information. Several authors address the architecture of the information infrastructure, its services and its requirements. Other papers focus on the knowledge and skill chains that develop in a variety of situations: the supply chain, the factory floor, the man-system interaction, etc. For each of these, state-of-the-art and state-of-research scenarios for various industrial sectors address both engineering and operations requirements in the current socio-economic environment. The editors’ introductory essay provides a unifying framework for these expert and wide-ranging studies in the modeling, design and development, and applications of information infrastructures in global enterprises and business networks. This book will be essential reading and reference for all researchers, engineers and managers concerned with business models of, and IT support for virtual enterprises and manufacturing networks. It presents a comprehensive text on information infrastructure for manufacturing and enterprise integration, modeling methodologies, and applications of information and telecommunication technologies.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 10
1. Enhancing Knowledge and Skill Chains in Manufacturing and Engineering......Page 12
PART I – Generic Infrastructure Requirements and Components......Page 22
2. Engineering Information Infrastructure for Product Life Cycle Management......Page 24
3. Architecting an Ubiquitous & Model Driven Information Infrastructure......Page 34
4. Service Modelling for Service Engineering......Page 42
5. The Extended Products Paradigm, an Introduction......Page 50
6. Process Plant Information Integration in Three Dimensions......Page 60
7. Using Contexts in Managing Product Knowledge......Page 68
8. Object-oriented Design Pattern Approach to Seamless Modeling, Simulation and Implementation of Distributed Control Systems......Page 78
9. An Interoperability Framework and Capability Profiling for Manufacturing Software......Page 86
10. IT-supported Modeling, Analysis and Design of Supply Chains......Page 96
11. Multi-strata Modeling in MCM and CLM for Collaborative Engineering......Page 104
12. Ontological Stratification in an Ecology of Infohabitants......Page 112
13. Logics of Becoming in Scheduling: Logical Movement behind Temporality......Page 122
14. Communication in the Digital City and Artifact Lives......Page 130
15. Validating Mediqual Constructs: Reliability, Empathy, Assurance, Tangibles, and Responsiveness......Page 138
PART II – External Collaboration......Page 150
16. Distributed Engineering Environment for Inter-enterprise Collaboration......Page 152
17. Agent Based Manufacturing Capability Assessment in the Extended Enterprise Using STEP AP224 and XML......Page 160
18. Inter-enterprise Planning of Manufacturing Systems Applying Simulation with IPR Protection......Page 170
19. A Study on Support System for Distributed Simulation System of Manufacturing Systems Using HLA......Page 178
20. Method and Tool for Design Process Navigation and Automatic Generation of Simulation Models for Manufacturing Systems......Page 188
21. Knowledge Management in Bid Preparation for Global Engineering and Manufacturing Projects......Page 196
22. Supply Chain Engineering and the Use of a Supporting Knowledge Management Application......Page 204
23. A Planning Framework for the Deployment of Innovative Information and Communication Technologies in Procurement......Page 212
24. Supreme: Supply Chain Integration by Reconfigurable Modules......Page 220
25. Tools and Methods for Risk Management in Multi-site Engineering Projects......Page 228
26. Development of an After-sales Support Inter-enterprise Collaboration System Using Information Technologies......Page 236
27. Collaborative Service in Global Manufacturing - A New Paradigm......Page 244
28. Remote Maintenance Support in Virtual Service Enterprises......Page 252
PART III – Factory Floor Infrastructure......Page 260
29. Intelligent Process Planning and Control Framework for the Internet......Page 262
30. Implementation of a Data Gathering System with Scalable Intelligent Control Architecture......Page 272
31. Creation of Feature Sets for Developing Integrated Process Planning System......Page 280
32. Proposal of the Modification Strategy of NC Program in the Virtual Manufacturing Environment......Page 288
33. Dynamic Co-operative Scheduling Based on HLA......Page 296
34. A Study on Data Handling Mechanism of a Distributed Virtual Factory......Page 304
35. A Study on Real-time Scheduling Methods in Holonic Manufacturing Systems......Page 312
36. Sensitivity Analysis of Critical Path and Its Visualization in Job Shop Scheduling......Page 324
37. Enterprise Integration of Management and Automation in a Refinery......Page 332
PART IV – Man-System Collaboration......Page 340
38. CAI System with Multi-Media Text through Web Browser for NC Lathe Programming......Page 342
39. Web Based Operation Instruction System Using Wearable Computer......Page 350
40. Model-based Description of Human Body Motions for Ergonomics Evaluation......Page 358
41. Model-Based Motion Analysis of Factory Workers using Multi-perspective Video Cameras......Page 366
42. Human Factor and its Identification in Manufacturing Prediction......Page 378
T......Page 386
Z......Page 387
M......Page 388
X......Page 389