Integration of design and manufacturing in a virtual enterprise using enterprise rules, intelligent agents, STEP, and workflow

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3203, Issue , 1997, Pages 160-171

  Gilman, C ^a   Aparicio, M ^b   Barry, J ^b   Durniak, T ^b   Lam, H ^c   Ramnath, R ^d  

^a STEP Tools Inc   (United States)

^b IBM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d University of Florida ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Agile manufacturing; CORBA; Enterprise rules; Intelligent agents; KI shell; Manufacturing Execution Systems; MES; National Industrial Information Infrastructure Protocols; NIIIP; Step; Workflow

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; APPLICATIONS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMMON OBJECT REQUEST BROKER ARCHITECTURE (CORBA); COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTEGRATION; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; INTELLIGENT CONTROL; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; TECHNOLOGY; WATER SUPPLY TUNNELS;

AGILE MANUFACTURING; CORBA; ENTERPRISE RULES; KI-SHELL; MES; NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE PROTOCOLS; NIIIP; STEP; WORKFLOW;

AGILE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0000974466     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.294429     Document Type: Conference Paper

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