TY - GEN
T1 - Business collaboration – an approach towards end-to-end ICT solutions for virtual factory
AU - Shamsuzzoha, Ahm
AU - Helo, Petri
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2016.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Business collaboration attracts substantial attention within manufacturing communities globally. Companies are collaborating with each other in order to achieve open innovation and for gaining business benefits. This specific research proposes a new business environment known as virtual factory, where similar type of companies form and execute business ecosystem. Such changed business environment demands for an end-to-end communication framework in order to obtaining status update between each other business processes. This research initiates an approach to the formation and execution of a virtual factory business environment that offers one of the important concepts and foundations central to the realization of future manufacturing environment. The virtual factory that is supported by the end-to-end integration of ICT technologies ensures a plug-and-play business process management functionality. In addition to, this research carried out an effort to look into the current researches on virtual collaborations, their inherent requirements and presented a communication framework between collaborative partners through ICT-enabled infrastructure. A case example is highlighted within the scope of this research with the objective to demonstrate and validate the presented communication framework that is to be implemented tomonitor andmanage virtual factory business processes successfully.
AB - Business collaboration attracts substantial attention within manufacturing communities globally. Companies are collaborating with each other in order to achieve open innovation and for gaining business benefits. This specific research proposes a new business environment known as virtual factory, where similar type of companies form and execute business ecosystem. Such changed business environment demands for an end-to-end communication framework in order to obtaining status update between each other business processes. This research initiates an approach to the formation and execution of a virtual factory business environment that offers one of the important concepts and foundations central to the realization of future manufacturing environment. The virtual factory that is supported by the end-to-end integration of ICT technologies ensures a plug-and-play business process management functionality. In addition to, this research carried out an effort to look into the current researches on virtual collaborations, their inherent requirements and presented a communication framework between collaborative partners through ICT-enabled infrastructure. A case example is highlighted within the scope of this research with the objective to demonstrate and validate the presented communication framework that is to be implemented tomonitor andmanage virtual factory business processes successfully.
KW - Business collaboration
KW - End-to-end ICT solutions
KW - Process monitoring
KW - SMEs
KW - Virtual factory
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-33111-9_67
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-33111-9_67
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84964900650
SN - 9783319331102
T3 - IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
SP - 738
EP - 747
BT - Product Lifecycle Management in the Era of Internet of Things - 12th IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference, PLM 2015, Revised Selected Papers
A2 - Bouras, Abdelaziz
A2 - Foufou, Sebti
A2 - Thoben, Klaus-Dieter
A2 - Eynard, Benoit
PB - Springer New York LLC
T2 - 12th IFIP WG 5.1 International Conference on Product Lifecycle Management in the Era of Internet of Things, PLM 2015
Y2 - 19 October 2015 through 21 October 2015
ER -