Abstract
The present global market, which is highly competitive, demands high-quality products, reduced cost and shorter delivery times. In order to lead the market, as a minimum requirement, manufacturers should have a capability to satisfy these global demands and be proactive. Globally distributed enterprises can gain leverage in leading the market due to their potential to utilise the distributed resources, and the capability to have collaborative expertise to meet and satisfy the diverse customer requirements. In addition, optimal utilisation of globally distributed resources is a necessity for success in globally distributed business enterprises. With the developments taking place in computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM) and its related technologies, CIM can be further expanded as a globally distributed CIM to overcome the above issues. A network of interconnected CIM systems, which are globally distributed, is regarded as a virtual CIM (VCIM) in this chapter. The VCIM concept was proposed as a solution to satisfy the emerging technological application of virtual enterprises. This chapter focuses on the issues that need to be addressed when resource scheduling is considered for collaborating enterprises that have adopted the VCIM system and it provides a simple approach for resource scheduling with the use of an agent-based architecture.
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Nagalingam, S., Lin, G., Wang, D. (2007). Resource Scheduling for a Virtual CIM System. In: Wang, L., Shen, W. (eds) Process Planning and Scheduling for Distributed Manufacturing. Springer Series in Advanced Manufacturing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-752-7_11
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