Title :
Interoperability issues in virtual organization - how to proceed?
Author :
Kangilaski, Taivo
Author_Institution :
Tallinn Univ. of Technol., Tallinn
Abstract :
A manufacturing process is not carried out by a single enterprise anymore. Companies realize the necessity to focus on their core competencies and become involved with others in order to fulfill the requirements of market. This trend involves the renewal of enterprise organization to integrate partnership between several enterprises, which stress the importance of information and communication technology. The current work focuses on the organizational information technology aspects taking account of the interoperability issues in virtual organization.
Keywords :
virtual enterprises; enterprise organization; interoperability issues; organizational information technology aspects; virtual organization; Communications technology; Companies; Computer aided manufacturing; Delay; Environmental economics; Extranets; Globalization; Manufacturing processes; Stress; Web and internet services;
Conference_Titel :
Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, 2007. ETFA. IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Patras
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-0825-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-0826-9
DOI :
10.1109/EFTA.2007.4416930
