Towards information networks to support composable manufacturing

Authors:
Mahesh Mani;Albert. T. Jones;Junho Shin;Ram D. Sriram
Affiliations:
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD;National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD;National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD;National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
Venue:
PerMIS '08 Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems
Year:
2008

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Abstract

Rigid, supply-chain organizational structures are giving way to highly dynamic collaborative partnerships. These partnerships will develop rapidly by composing global manufacturing resources in response to open market opportunities and they will disband just as rapidly when those opportunities disappear. Cooperation, coordination, and distributed decision-making will be critical to the success of these dynamically composable systems. That success, in turn, will depend on the creation of a manufacturing information network that automates as much as possible, the identification, formalization, encoding, and sharing of appropriate manufacturing- and business-related knowledge. In this paper we present some of the issues and requirements associated with the creation of such networks.