Authors:
Kwangyeol Ryu
1
;
Seokwoo Lee
2
and
Honzong Choi
2
Affiliations:
1
Pusan National University, Korea, Republic of
;
2
i-Manufacturing Center, KITECH, Korea, Republic of
Keyword(s):
Modularization, Collaboration, i-Manufacturing, Manufacturing Innovation.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Internet and Collaborative Computing
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
Abstract:
Unpredictable customer needs strongly require for manufacturing enterprises to produce quality products satisfying cost and time constraints. To cope with such dynamically changing manufacturing environment and to get higher competitiveness, the manufacturing industry needs to be equipped with advanced technologies including IT as well as substantial infrastructure. On the one hand “i-Manufacturing” is the name of the project funded by the Korea government, but on the other it is the strategy for achieving manufacturing innovation in Korea. The most basic but important concept of the i-Manufacturing is “collaboration”. As a part of the i-Manufacturing project, we are developing various kinds of web-based collaboration systems, referred to as hub systems. Along with increase in the number of collaboration systems and users every year, we have to modularize function modules for easy and synthetic application of systems to other conglomerates or industries. Here, collaboration systems w
e developed are currently being used by more than 300 companies in Korea. In this paper, therefore, we first introduce the
i-Manufacturing project and collaboration systems we have developed. The system architecture and composition of function modules which has multi-level framework will be described in detail before concluding the paper.
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