TY - JOUR
T1 - Design of a Global Decision Support System for a manufacturing SME
T2 - Towards participating in Collaborative Manufacturing
AU - Lin, Hao W.
AU - Nagalingam, Sev V.
AU - Kuik, Swee S.
AU - Murata, Tomohiro
N1 - Funding Information:
Authors acknowledge the funding provided by Australian Research Council for this research project, the support provided by industry partner, Dynek Pty Ltd., South Australia, Australia , and the review comments for this article by Mr. B. Crook, Managing director of Dynek Pty Ltd.
PY - 2012/3
Y1 - 2012/3
N2 - This paper discusses the conceptual design of a Global Decision Support System for a manufacturing Small or Medium Enterprise (SM/E), which actively participates in Collaborative Manufacturing. In order to implement the proposed concept, a Web Services based system architecture is proposed to offer maximum interoperability between all the distributed participants of a Collaborative Manufacturing Network (CMN) and their management information systems. Furthermore, this conceptual design utilises a Collaborative decision-support model that effectively interacts with the decision-makers and the management information systems/tools exist in the network, and provides appropriate support to all necessary decision-making steps towards the attainment of the networks strategic goals, while making full benefits of the network resources.
AB - This paper discusses the conceptual design of a Global Decision Support System for a manufacturing Small or Medium Enterprise (SM/E), which actively participates in Collaborative Manufacturing. In order to implement the proposed concept, a Web Services based system architecture is proposed to offer maximum interoperability between all the distributed participants of a Collaborative Manufacturing Network (CMN) and their management information systems. Furthermore, this conceptual design utilises a Collaborative decision-support model that effectively interacts with the decision-makers and the management information systems/tools exist in the network, and provides appropriate support to all necessary decision-making steps towards the attainment of the networks strategic goals, while making full benefits of the network resources.
KW - Collaborative Manufacturing
KW - Collaborative networks
KW - Global Decision Support System
KW - Multi-objective optimisation
KW - System interoperability
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ijpe.2011.07.001
DO - 10.1016/j.ijpe.2011.07.001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84855984150
SN - 0925-5273
VL - 136
SP - 1
EP - 12
JO - International Journal of Production Economics
JF - International Journal of Production Economics
IS - 1
ER -
