TY - JOUR
T1 - Shop floor reengineering to support agility in virtual enterprise environments
AU - Barata Oliveira, José António
AU - Camarinha-Matos, L. M.
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - Industrial enterprises are required to show an increasing agile behaviour in order to participate in temporary alliances (virtual enterprises) and to keep their competitiveness while facing new emerging manufacturing trends such as mass customization. The required agility should not be confined to the highlevel management aspects, but has to be a characteristic supported at all levels of the enterprise. A particularly challenging area is the shop-floor agility. Starting with a set of real world case studies, this paper presents the motivations for a proposal of a re-engineering methodology, introduces and characterises its main steps, and then focus on code generation for the control/supervision system of evolving shopfloors.
AB - Industrial enterprises are required to show an increasing agile behaviour in order to participate in temporary alliances (virtual enterprises) and to keep their competitiveness while facing new emerging manufacturing trends such as mass customization. The required agility should not be confined to the highlevel management aspects, but has to be a characteristic supported at all levels of the enterprise. A particularly challenging area is the shop-floor agility. Starting with a set of real world case studies, this paper presents the motivations for a proposal of a re-engineering methodology, introduces and characterises its main steps, and then focus on code generation for the control/supervision system of evolving shopfloors.
KW - Floors
KW - Reengineering
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84901648888&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84901648888
SN - 1868-4238
VL - 56
SP - 381
EP - 394
JO - TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION FOR SUSTAINABILITY
JF - TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION FOR SUSTAINABILITY
ER -