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Confronted with constant structural changes in society and the manufacturing industry, enterprises have undertaken several innovative activities for optimising their processes. One approach which represents extremely fast adaptation to quickly changing constraints involves building up a “Variable Production Network” (VPN). This is a dynamic co-operation system or network of companies over a specific period Smaller and medium-sized enterprises particularly benefit from such co-operation, which provides an opportunity for joint development and the introduction of new products and technologies. In addition, many enterprises have realised that such product and resource related links offer the chance to reduce internal complexity, to concentrate on core skills, and to function in an “Alliance of the Best”. In order to benefit from the consequent potentials of such co-operation with the same or even reduced costs, the enterprises concerned have to fulfil certain preconditions, namely the capability to adapt to the production network requirements. The development of methods for a networkable production management (NetProM) is the basic goal of an ongoing industrial research project. This paper will present initial results of the project.
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Wiendahl, HP., Helms, K. (1998). Variable Production Networks — Successful Operating in an “Alliance of the Best”. In: Schönsleben, P., Büchel, A. (eds) Organizing the Extended Enterprise. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35295-4_2
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