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Integrating Smart Objects as Data Basis in Virtual Enterprise Collaborations

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Enterprise Interoperability VI

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Small and Medium Enterprises of the manufacturing domain have to cope with a highly competitive market today. To establish flexible and efficient collaborations with partners in such an environment, new collaboration concepts and corresponding IT architectures are required, such as Virtual Manufacturing Enterprises. Therefore, we provide in this paper an overview of a generic IT architecture for realizing collaborations within Virtual Manufacturing Enterprises. However, besides an adequate IT architecture, a sound and up-to-date data basis is an essential necessity for inter-company collaborations to be successful. Smart Objects constitute a promising technology to gather and transmit a huge diversity of different process-relevant data in real time and can thus act as valuable data source in order to achieve such a comprehensive and up-to-date data basis. In consequence, we describe in this paper how Smart Object technology can be employed and integrated in our architecture for Virtual Manufacturing Enterprises in order to enable efficient data provisioning in such collaboration scenarios.

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This work was partially supported by the Commission of the European Union within the ADVENTURE FP7-ICT project (Grant agreement no. 285220).

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    Sebastian Zöller, Ronny Hans, Dieter Schuller, Ulrich Lampe & Ralf Steinmetz

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  2. Centre Génie Industriel, École des Mines d'Albi-Carmaux, Albi CT Cédex, France

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  3. Research Centre on Production Management and Engineering, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Alcoy, Alicante, Spain

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Zöller, S., Hans, R., Schuller, D., Lampe, U., Steinmetz, R. (2014). Integrating Smart Objects as Data Basis in Virtual Enterprise Collaborations. In: Mertins, K., Bénaben, F., Poler, R., Bourrières, JP. (eds) Enterprise Interoperability VI. Proceedings of the I-ESA Conferences, vol 7. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04948-9_25

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