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The information technologies are commonly accepted as one of the keys to support the new enterprise paradigms emerging in the global market. Enterprises are not any more monolithic production infrastructures but rather nodes contributing to a wide spread production system. The intrinsic distribution aspects of the Virtual Enterprise paradigm brought new challenges to the research arena. The Internet and in particular the Web infrastructure used as a new information “highway” can link together distributed activity execution agents, persons or more basic computational processes. This paper presents the VCIM-FACE architecture as an integrating infrastructure to support concurrent engineering in the virtual enterprise. Co-operative product developments, grouping specialised teams spread through various enterprises, is fundamental to this new manufacturing paradigm. Issues like distributed execution of Business Plans, security and privacy, and execution control of concurrent engineering activities are some of the topics discussed in this paper.
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Osório, A.L., Oliveira, N., Camarinha-Matos, L.M. (1998). Concurrent Engineering in Virtual Enterprises: the Extended CIM-FACE Architecture. In: Camarinha-Matos, L.M., Afsarmanesh, H., Marik, V. (eds) Intelligent Systems for Manufacturing. BASYS 1998. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 1. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35390-6_15
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