Design of a Global Decision Support System for a manufacturing SME: Towards participating in Collaborative Manufacturing

Hao W. Lin, Sev V. Nagalingam, Swee S. Kuik and Tomohiro Murata

International Journal of Production Economics, 2012, vol. 136, issue 1, 1-12

Abstract: 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 network's strategic goals, while making full benefits of the network resources.

Keywords: Collaborative Manufacturing; Collaborative networks; Global Decision Support System; System interoperability; Multi-objective optimisation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2011.07.001

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