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Many organisations have evolved into disparate functional units through the adoption of a decentralised control structure. Meaningful and effective exchanges of information between these units are required to support organisational integration. This paper proposes the use of STEP technology and software for implementing an integrated information system that can act as a supporting infrastructure to the organisation’s functional units. The paper describes a methodology, using a case example, that can be used to develop such an infrastructure.
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Reid, S.P., Banerjee, S.K. (1997). A Supporting Enterprise Infrastructure Using STEP Technologies. In: Goossenaerts, J., Kimura, F., Wortmann, H. (eds) Information Infrastructure Systems for Manufacturing. DIISM 1996. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35063-9_8
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