Implementation of remote robot manufacturing over Internet

Remote manufacturing allows companies to dynamically establish manufacturing alliances by exploiting advantages of enabling information technologies. Product data management and information integration are two of the most important issues for success of remote manufacturing. In this paper, we studied the two issues by taking a case of a remote manufacturing implementation in a robot manufacturing company. An integrated product data model and the related configuration management methods are developed. Under a hybrid architecture of Web browser/server and client/server, an application system is presented to manipulate the product data and to carry out a variety of manufacturing functions. Finally, a CORBA standards-based integration framework is proposed to achieve interoperability among multiple data and application objects over the Internet and company Intranets. # 2001 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.