New Shop Floor Control Approaches for Virtual Enterprises

The virtual enterprise paradigm seems a fit response to face market instability and the volatile nature of business opportunities increasing enterprise’s interest in similar forms of networked organisations. The dynamic environment of a virtual enterprise requires that partners in the consortium own...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ribeiro, Luís (author)
Other Authors: Barata, José (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10362/1727
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:run.unl.pt:10362/1727
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Summary:The virtual enterprise paradigm seems a fit response to face market instability and the volatile nature of business opportunities increasing enterprise’s interest in similar forms of networked organisations. The dynamic environment of a virtual enterprise requires that partners in the consortium own reconfigurable shop floors. This paper presents new approaches to shop floor control that meet the requirements of the new industrial paradigms and argues on work re-organization at shop floor level.