The Enterprise-Web portal for life-cycle support

As we enter the new millennium, the approach to product development is evolving rapidly. Companies are in the process of creating a distributed design and manufacturing environment that enables integrated product, processes, and protocols development (IP3D). Certain strategies and some specific technologies are required to create such an environment. One such strategy is finding effective methods for communication and sharing of information, especially those related to design and manufacturing, throughout the entire enterprise and the supply chain. The technologies that support such a strategy must be able to deal with distributed environments and databases, must ensure reliability and security, and must be practical. Therefore, to accomplish this task efficiently, we need a roadmap that spells out the communication infrastructure (with a practical access interface) and defines the administration and management methodology. We suggest here that electronic access to design and manufact...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2000
• Where: CAD
• Authors: Mohsen Rezayat
• Keywords: CAD 2000, Extended Enterprise, Manufacturing, Object Web, Theoretical Computer Science