Real-time, cooperative enterprises for customised mass production

Real-time, cooperative enterprises for customised mass production

1 The paper discusses the main requirements that are posed by customized mass production towards managing production networks. Special emphasis is put on real-time, cooperative behaviour. We present a large-scale national industry-academia R&D project aimed at improving the performance of a production network that produces consumer goods in large quantities and variability. An integrated approa...

Real-time, Cooperative Enterprises

In addition of the four main R&D directions, i.e., adaptive manufacturing, digital manufacturing, knowledge-based manufacturing, and networked manufacturing, emphasised by the European initiative Manufuture, two additional requirements, i.e., the real-timeness and cooperativeness of production structures are also outlined in the paper, which are of high and increasing importance. The paper high...

Business Process Learning for Real Time Enterprises

Quality Contracts for Real-Time Enterprises

Real-time enterprises rely on user queries being answered in a timely fashion and using fresh data. This is relatively easy when systems are lightly loaded and both queries and updates can be finished quickly. However, this goal becomes fundamentally hard to achieve due to the high volume of queries and updates in real systems, especially in periods of flash crowds. In such cases, systems typic...

Real Time Enterprises: A Continuous Migration Approach