STUDY ON INTEGRATED INFRASTRUCTURE FOR AGILE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Lü, Baozhan | Li, Zhangdong | Liu, Kun

Affiliations: Jiaozuo Institute of Technology, Jiaozuo, P.R. China

Abstract: System integration has two meanings: enterprise integration and information system integration. As one new type of enterprise integration, agile manufacturing is the means of production and management in industrial enterprise for the 21 st century, emphasizing an enterprise's capacity for rapid response and efficient reengineering when facing market opportunity. Current approaches to the design and construction of enterprise systems has lead to fixed interdependences between valuable resources. This constrains resource reuse and the agility of systems, often preventing close alignment between system behaviour and business process requirements. This paper describes the need for agile manufacturing systems, in addition to requirements of manufacturing integration infrastructure. These components are likely to become common building blocks of next-generation agile manufacturing systems. At the same time, the reference model of System Integrated Infrastructure Based on Current Agile Manufacturing is put forward in this paper.

Keywords: system integration, integrated infrastructure, agile manufacturing, reference model

Journal: Journal of Integrated Design & Process Science, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 99-105, 2004