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This paper describes an ongoing research project, funded by the EC Esprit program, aiming at developing a software workbench supporting the manufacturing systems engineering process. The system provides a user-friendly and powerful environment in which tools supporting the conception, design and evaluation of manufacturing systems will be integrated in a common framework. The foundation of the workbench is a descriptive method of the domain of manufacturing systems (based on the object-oriented methodology), enabling the description of all the aspects of a generic manufacturing system. The paper describes the main design issues of the workbench and presents its logical architecture; then it underlines how this system can allow the coordinated work of many design teams of a distributed company thanks to the standard descriptive method used to describe manufacturing systems.
It is possible to foresee that such a system could have a dramatic impact on the manufacturing system engineering process in the extended enterprise environment.
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Corradi, E., Bartolotta, A., Garetti, M., Rabe, M., Raimondo, A. (1998). Manufacturing Systems Engineering for the Extended Enterprise. In: Schönsleben, P., Büchel, A. (eds) Organizing the Extended Enterprise. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35295-4_8
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