ABSTRACT

Collaborative manufacturing is an interactive process with great potential, but without the direct input of the plant floor systems information, a significant piece of the management process is not available for consideration. Collaborative Manufacturing provides guidance and examples of how and why real-time events within the plant floor managemen

chapter 1|8 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|14 pages

Collaboration strategies

chapter 4|14 pages

Synchronized production and inventories

chapter 5|14 pages

Manufacturing enterprise collaboration

chapter 6|14 pages

Product life-cycle management

chapter 7|12 pages

Enterprise resource planning

chapter 8|18 pages

Supply chain management

chapter 9|24 pages

On-line, real-time data sources

chapter 10|16 pages

Industries and data standards

chapter 11|10 pages

Collaboration and lean manufacturing

chapter 12|6 pages

Collaboration from the academic view

chapter 13|10 pages

Automotive industry collaboration

chapter 14|10 pages

Life science industries

chapter 15|8 pages

Electronics industry collaboration

chapter 16|10 pages

Process industry collaboration*

chapter 17|4 pages

Summary