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<P>Digital engineering methods and systems are vitally important for performing key technical and business functions of global enterprises in a distributed and collaborative manner. The product design and engineering systems are gradually being developed to include a variety of tools for DfX, as well as incorporate aspects of digital manufacturing.</P>
<P><STRONG>Digital Enterprise Technology: Perspectives and Future Challenges</STRONG>, an edited volume, contains accepted chapters presented at the 3rd, CIRP sponsored International Conference in Digital Enterprise Technology (DET'06), held in Setúbal, Portugal, September 2006. DET 2006 follows on the success of the two previous meetings held in Durham, UK and Seattle, USA, in 2002 and 2004 respectively. The chapters presented in this book are contributed by world class leaders in the field. This volume includes relevant examples of current state-of-art in the development and use of systems and methods for the digital modelling of global development and realization processes in the context of life cycle management.</P>

<P>International Committee.- Organizing Committee.- Preface/Editorial.- Sponsors.- Keynote Papers.- Digital Manufacturing In The Global Era.- Global Manufacturing – Challenges And Solutions.- Emergent Synthesis Approaches To Biological Manufacturing Systems.- Reconfigurable Process Plans For Responsive Manufacturing Systems.- Collaborative Networks In Industry - Trends And Foundations.- Session 1 Advanced Factory Design And Modeling.- A Logistics Framework For Coordinating Supply Chains On Unstable Markets.- Federative Factory Data Management An Approach Based Upon Service Oriented Architecture (Soa).- Engineering Change Impact Analysis In Production .- Using Vr.- Virtual Factory Framework: Key Enabler For Future Manufacturing.- Reconfigurability Of Manufacturing Systems For Agility Implementation –Part I: Requirements And Principles.- Reconfigurability Of Manufacturing Systems For Agility Implementation –Part Ii: Two Architectures.- Self Organization Shop Floor Control.- Logistic- And Cost-Oriented Cross-Company Ramp-Up Planning.- Optimization Customized Token-Based Production Control Systems Using Cross-Entropy.- Role Of The Information And Knowledge In Det.- Business Intelligence System For Strategic Decision Making In Machine-Tool Smes.- Production Monitoring Linked To Object Identification And Tracking– A Step Towards Real Time Manufacturing In Automotive Plants.- Modeling Services In Information Systems Architectures.- Automatic Partitioning Of Problems Through Submodel Decomposition— A Promising Technique Of Det.- Session 2 Distributed And Collaborative Design.- Implementing Det For Agile Design In The Virtual Enterprise.- Dynamics Of State-Problems And Design Intermediate Objects In Distributed And Collaborative Design Process.- An Integrated Design System For Molded Interconnect Devices (3d-Mid).- A Novel Knowledge Management Methodology To Support Collaborative Product Development.- Knowledge Engineering Systems For Digital Enterprise Performance Improvement.- Collaborative Design In The Assembly Systems.- Fuzzy Product Configuration In Advanced Cad Systems.- An Adaptive Tolerance Model For Collaborative Design.- Session 3 Process Modeling And Process Planning.- Cost Estimation And Conceptual Process Planning.- Semi-Generative Macro-Process Planning For Reconfigurable Manufacturing.- Modeling Manufacturing Cells Using Principles Of Reengineering And Component Clusters.- Constraint Programming Approach To Designing Conflict-Free Schedules For Repetitive Manufacturing Processes.- The Relevance Of Lean Manufacturing Principles In Diverse Applications And Digital Enterprises.- Ontology Supported Adaptive User Interfaces For Structural Cad Design.- Rapid Design Of Model-Based Process Chains – A Graph Based Approach.- An Application Of Iso-Gum In The Method For Estimating The Dimensional Errors Of Bent Parts.- Simulation-Based Production Planning Based On Logistic Monitoring And Risk Management Aspects.- Simulation Based Organizational Change In Multiple Product Assembly Systems.- Web Based Multi Agent Platform For Collaborative Manufacturing.- Contract Negotiation Wizard For Vo Creation.- A Probability-Reactive Order Processing Method Based On The Load-Oriented Order Release (Loor) For Maintenance Of Capital- Intensive Goods.- Towards Interactive Clp – Based And Project Driven Oriented Dss Design.- Applying The Zachman Framework Dimensions To Support Business Process Modeling.- Session 4 Enterprise Integration Technologies.- A Framework To Integrate Manufacturing Information Systems.- Implementation Of Collaboration Model Within Sme’s.- Framework For A Knowledge Support System For Distributed Collaborative Design Projects.- A Concept For The Configuration Of Value Added Networks Based On Quality Capabilities During Ramp-Up.- Dynamic Performance Management In Business Networks Environment.- A Quantified Approach To Tacit Knowledge Management In R&amp;D-Environments Through The Use Of Document-Based User Profiles.- Innovation Scorecard: A Balanced Scorecard For Measuring The Value Added By Innovation.- The Emerging Technologies And Standards On Bpm And The Socio-Technical Approaches: Contributions To Collaborative Environments.- Entropy As A Measurement For The Quality Of Demand Forecasting.- Knowledge–Based And Cp–Driven Methodology For Dedicated Dss Design.- Perspectives Of Mould Making Industry For Digital Global Manufacturing.- Generative Planning In A Det Environment.- Organizational Functions And Enterprise Self-Maintenance: A Framework For Integrating Modelling, Monitoring And Learning.- Digital Enterprise Technologies: An Application To Support Globalization And Service Providing In Toolmaking Companies.- Towards An Out-Of-The-Box Integrated Services Environment.- Session 5 Physical-To-Digital Environment Integrators.- A Cad Modelling System Automation For Reverse Engineering Applications.- Advanced Prototyping With Parametric Prototypes.- Ergonomic Evaluation Of Virtual Assembly Tasks.- Capturing Resource Operation Knowledge From Runtime Data For Production Support And Feedback To Development.- Assisting Mould Quotation Through Retrieval Of .- Similar Data.- Det Studies Of The Saarinen Arch.- Session 6 Species – Production System Evolutions.- Simulation Of The Manufacturing Process, Generation .- Of A Model Of The Manufactured Parts.- Uml As A Basis To Model Autonomous Production Systems.- Process Analysis And Flexible Transfer Line Configuration.- Sequence Analysis Of Finite Position Machine Fpm.- Method For Integrated Design Using A Knowledge Formalization.- Author Index.</P>

<P>Digital engineering methods and systems are vitally important for performing key technical and business functions of global enterprises in a distributed and collaborative manner. The product design and engineering systems are gradually being developed to include a variety of tools for DfX, as well as incorporate aspects of digital manufacturing.</P>
<P><STRONG>Digital Enterprise Technology: Perspectives and Future Challenges</STRONG>, an edited volume, contains accepted chapters presented at the 3rd, CIRP sponsored International Conference in Digital Enterprise Technology (DET'06), held in Setúbal, Portugal, September 2006. DET 2006 follows on the success of the two previous meetings held in Durham, UK and Seattle, USA, in 2002 and 2004 respectively. The chapters presented in this book are contributed by world class leaders in the field. This volume includes relevant examples of current state-of-art in the development and use of systems and methods for the digital modelling of global development and realization processes in the context of life cycle management.</P>
<P><STRONG>Digital Enterprise Technology: Perspectives and Future Challenges</STRONG> is designed for a professional audience, composed of researchers and practitioners in industry. This book is also suitable for graduate level students in computer science and engineering.</P>
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<p>Includes advance factory design and modelling</p><p>Includes physical-to-digital environment integrators</p><p>Distinguished contributors in the field</p><p>Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras</p>

<P>The first Digital Enterprise Technology (DET) International Conference was held in Durham, UK in 2002 and the second DET Conference in Seattle, USA in 2004. Sponsored by CIRP (College International pour la Recherche en Productique), the third DET Conference took place in Setúbal, Portugal in 2006. </P>
<P>Digital Enterprise Technology:&nbsp; Perspectives and Future Challenges is an edited volume based on this conference. Topics include: distributed and collaborative design, process modeling and process planning, advanced factory equipment and layout design and modeling, physical-to-digital environment integrators, enterprise integration technologies, and entrepreneurship in DET.</P>
<P>Digital Enterprise Technology:&nbsp; Perspectives and Future Challenges is designed for a professional audience composed of practitioners and researchers in industry. This book is suitable for advanced-level students in computer science as well.</P>

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