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Large organisations tend to force suppliers to follow their rules in terms of IT and organisational solutions. Small and medium size enterprises (SME) have still no choice. Usually they have to follow the pressure and in a worst case to implement for each customer or supplier specific processes and IT solutions. Sometimes this results in additional cost and time consuming manual tasks. Therefore,...
The paper aims to observe what role the modern IT tools play in the process of knowledge sharing inside the enterprise. Our hypothesis is that semantic data models and semantic web applications foster knowledge sharing through the codification of tacit knowledge. We propose a topic map based technology for the management of unstructured information. Topic map technology enables the visualization of...
Some theoretical landmarks are discussed allowing to situate the performance indicators in relation to the business scope and objectives, the information systems, and the information technologies, and to guarantee completeness, effectiveness, and efficiency of defining and implementing these indicators. An enterprise architecture framework is proposed, and a declination of the approach as a roadmap...
This paper aims at presenting the basic concepts and approaches on enterprise interoperability measurements. Methods to evaluate enterprise performances will be at first presented and reviewed. Then the paper focuses on the interoperability measurement. Three basic enterprise interoperability measures are discussed, namely, interoperability potential, interoperability incompatibility, and interoperability...
This paper presents an innovative approach to support collaboration in manufacturing industry, especially related to intelligent monitoring of complex assembly and manufacturing systems in global settings. The new collaborative platform built based on service-oriented architectures principles is proposed. The innovative collaborative services to be combined with the existing tools for monitoring of...
This paper classifies methodologies whose original concepts can be used and adapted as a way to raise awareness of the importance of internal intangible assets of an organization as effective elements of the economic sustainability of a company. Methodologies considered for this purpose are as follows, the methodology of Teixeira (2005) to determine the manufacture flexibility indicators. The methodology...
Companies are turning to new forms of collaboration, at several levels, as a way to respond to the demanding market. Constantly changing requirements make collaboration among companies, having each company involved with several others, forming networked enterprises. The current paper presents an approach to efficiently support intra-enterprise collaboration in such networked enterprises. The approach...
Collaborative Working Environments (CWE) provide shared workspaces that enable eProfessionals to work together and share resources that they own. Most current shared workspaces provide coarse-grained role-based access control policies which bring the functionalities of shared workspaces under question. In this paper, we present Annotation-Based Access Control, an approach towards access control which...
Collaborative Virtual environments move more and more in the focus of CSCW research. Increasingly, empirical studies look at new and innovative uses of these platforms which were traditionally used for recreation purposes, but now also made their way into business and learning fields. These studies are all in need of data to verify their hypotheses. This paper presents a research framework which is...
Collaboration between enterprises (SMEs) in a common business environment, from the technical point of view, requires a powerful IT-platform oriented to manage collaborative processes and interaction. Key elements are Value chain modelling and managing, intelligent content management across SMEs network, web services interoperability using standards to connect heterogeneous platforms. The focal point...
This work presents the architecture developed in the context of the EU-funded FP6-IST project named PROMISE, aiming at the closure of the whole set of information loops throughout the product lifecycle. The ultimate goals of the project are to integrate product data from the entire lifecycle via different sources, to support comprehensive analysis of this data and to enhance enterprise operational...
The idea of a Single European Electronic Market (SEEM), described by the European Union and further elaborated within the European Project SEEMseed seems to be a good chance for Small, Medium and Micro Enterprises to seamlessly participate in the electronic market today and in the future. Even individuals may take advantage of the SEEM idea to actively benefit from electronic business within Europe...
Component identification is one decisive task in designing software architectures for large component-based information systems, and especially the quality of business components identification plays an important role in concurrent enterprising. Methods that have been developed for this task yield component architectures that conform to these methods' target functions. This paper validates the soundness...
This paper describes the concept of the solution provider, i.e. the provider of customised product/service bundles. A model — consisting of six principles and success factors for solution management — is designed and explored through a survey. The answers from 99 German medium-sized companies are used to draw conclusions on the relevance and the need for action to manage the transition from being...
Sustainability in food networks has become a dominant issue in the development of the food sector in light of the challenging scenarios one might expect in the future. Products, enterprises, chains, consumers, and regions are all affected by this discussion. Environmental, social and economic pressures require the development of strategies on how to best meet the challenges and to move the sector...
To support managerial decision making, this paper explores and illustrates an analytical framework to assess the influence of success factors in Collaborative Product Development (CPD). More precisely, this paper provides an evaluation model based on the analytical network process (ANP) approach to assist in determining which factors of collaboration are most important. The dynamic characteristics...
This paper gives a formal ontological approach for formalisation of expert knowledge in the conformity-checking model in construction. First, we present our knowledge acquisition method aimed at the representation of all the knowledge on the reasoning process formalized with the help of the conformity-checking ontology. Based on this method, we then develop a reasoning model on the checking of the...
In order to enhance the classically process of connecting devices to virtual reality applications the device integration tool Immersive Integrator is developed in the scope of the DiFac (Digital Factory Human Oriented Production System) project by Fraunhofer IPA. The article presents the method of modelling used for the Immersive Integrator based on task composition taxonomies. Afterwards it describes...
The daily work, reach and scope of SMEs have expanded to global business relationships. This implies that "ad hoc collaboration around a table" with partners and customers is no longer feasible. Specialist engineers and managers are increasingly on the move, but nevertheless they need full access to all relevant business data, like drawings, calculations and/or reports and project state...
Real-time interactive collaboration is key to the success of organisations providing customised products/services to clients. This is especially the case when managers and engineers are on the move and need to communicate with and access data from not only the head office, but from other partners and clients engaged in the definition, development, delivery, or maintenance of the product/service. This...
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