A methodology toward manufacturing grid-based virtual enterprise operation platform

  • Authors:

  • Wenan Tan;Yicheng Xu;Wei Xu;Lida Xu;Xianhua Zhao;Li Wang;Liuliu Fu

  • Affiliations:

  • School of Computer, Shanghai Second Polytechnic University, Shanghai, China;School of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China;College of Arts and Science, Jianghan University, Wuhan, China;Department of Information Technology and Decision Sciences, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA;Shandong College of Information Technology, Weifang, China;Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing, China;School of Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China,Department of Information Technology and Decision Sciences, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA

  • Venue:
  • Enterprise Information Systems
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Virtual enterprises (VEs) have become one of main types of organisations in the manufacturing sector through which the consortium companies organise their manufacturing activities. To be competitive, a VE relies on the complementary core competences among members through resource sharing and agile manufacturing capacity. Manufacturing grid (M-Grid) is a platform in which the production resources can be shared. In this article, an M-Grid-based VE operation platform (MGVEOP) is presented as it enables the sharing of production resources among geographically distributed enterprises. The performance management system of the MGVEOP is based on the balanced scorecard and has the capacity of self-learning. The study shows that a MGVEOP can make a semi-automated process possible for a VE, and the proposed MGVEOP is efficient and agile.