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International Journal of Production Research Volume 43, 2005 - Issue 12
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Network-integrated manufacturing system

B. Dan College of Economics and Business Administration, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400030, China
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L. Li * Department of Information Technology and Decision Sciences, College of Business and Public Administration, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529, USA
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X. Zhang College of Economics and Business Administration, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400030, China
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F. Guo College of Economics and Business Administration, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400030, China
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J. Zhou College of Economics and Business Administration, Chongqing University, Chongqing 400030, China
Pages 2631-2647 | Received 01 Jan 2005, Published online: 22 Feb 2007
 
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Abstract

In this study, systematic integration for networked manufacturing, including information integration, process integration, knowledge integration and organisation integration, is presented. Then, a model of network-integrated manufacturing system (NIMS) is proposed. A wheel of network-integrated manufacturing system (NIMS) details the concept, which includes five integrated rings: the rings of core objects, participants, support centres, functional subsystems and infrastructure. A NIMS model of a Chinese ceramic company (CP-NIMS) is presented to illustrate how the model can be applied to ceramic product design, customisation, production, and delivery.

Acknowledgement

The authors would like to acknowledge the support of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Key Technologies R&D Program of China.

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