Abstract
The challenges of the global market have been motivating companies to search how they can improve their competitiveness through partnership. However, and especially for SME companies, the lack of resources and know-how has been preventing them to move ahead in that direction. The IMS SMART-fm project, develops research on this subject intending to demonstrate and stimulate the furniture industrial sector (mainly SME based) how to improve its competitiveness through the adoption of a standard-based extended environment. This paper, after highlighting the general motivations SMEs can have on adopting extended enterprise practices, proposes an architecture for a low-cost standard-based platform based on Grid computing and Web Services, skilled to support an extended environment for the complete furniture product life cycle. The platform has been validated by industry, aiming to be a referential pilot demonstrator for SMEs.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 10th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications, Advanced Design, Production and Management Systems |
| Editors | J. Cha, R. Jardim-Gonçalves, A. Steiger-Garção |
| Publisher | Swets en Zeitlinger B.V. |
| Pages | 275-280 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| ISBN (Print) | 905809524X |
| Publication status | Published - 2003 |
| Event | 10th International Conference on Concurrent Engineering - Madeira, Portugal Duration: 26 Jul 2003 → 30 Jul 2003 |
Conference
| Conference | 10th International Conference on Concurrent Engineering |
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| Country/Territory | Portugal |
| City | Madeira |
| Period | 26/07/03 → 30/07/03 |