Distributed collaborative design and manufacturability assessment for extended enterprise in XML-based agent system

Proceedings of the Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, WETICE

Volumn 2000-January, Issue , 2000, Pages 260-265

  Shiau, J Y ^a   Ratchev, S M ^a   Valtchanov, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Concurrent engineering; Decision making; Design engineering; Intelligent agent; Manufacturing processes; Process design; Product design; Product development; Pulp manufacturing

Indexed keywords

CONCURRENT ENGINEERING; DECISION MAKING; DESIGN; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; MANUFACTURE; PROCESS DESIGN; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; XML;

COLLABORATION; COLLABORATIVE DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING; DESIGN ENGINEERING; DISTRIBUTED COLLABORATIVE DESIGN; EARLY DESIGN STAGES; MANUFACTURING ENTERPRISE; MANUFACTURING PROCESS; PULP MANUFACTURING;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 84949672174     PISSN: 15244547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ENABL.2000.883740     Document Type: Conference Paper

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