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The paper presents and discusses the main informational activities that take place in a network of small-medium manufacturing enterprises. The network management process is split into elementary steps, grouped according to the entity in charge of them: the network coordinating unit or the single node. The identified steps are those that ensure high reactivity of the network as a whole to customer requests, and the required autonomy and equal rights to the network nodes. The states of the network result strongly related to those of two basic informational elements: the customer order and the node task. The analysis has been carried out to provide requirements for the software tools that should support the network activities.
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Bonfatti, F., Monari, P.D., Montanari, R. (1997). Information flows and processes in a SME network. In: Camarinha-Matos, L.M. (eds) Re-engineering for Sustainable Industrial Production. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35086-8_7
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