Flow of orders through a virtual enterprise: Their proactive planning and scheduling, and reactive control

Computing and Control Engineering Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 173-179

  Richards, H D ^a   Dudenhausen, H M ^b   Makatsoris, C ^c   De Ridder, L ^d  

^a MAPS   (United Kingdom)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING AND AUTOMATION IPA   (Germany)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d Nimble NV   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PROCESS CONTROL; SCHEDULING; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MANUFACTURE; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

COMMON OBJECT REQUEST BROKER ARCHITECTURE (CORBA); ORDER FLOW; VIRTUAL ENTERPRISE (VE);

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 0031213179     PISSN: 09563385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/cce:19970408     Document Type: Article

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