Affiliation:
1. Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Abstract
For a manufacturing enterprise to be competitive in constantly changing market
environment, it is necessary to adopt a new model called agile manufacturing by organizing Virtual
Enterprise. Aimed at developing a product development process management (PDPM) system for
Virtual Enterprise, modeling of product development process is discussed and a union information
model is proposed using Object Modeling Technique. Based on the J2EE platform, a framework of
PDPM system is built up with a three-tiered architecture, which consists of several Enterprise
JavaBeans components to ensure compatibility, distribution, and flexibility of the system. A PDPM
system prototype is developed utilizing JAVA and has been validated in a simulated virtual
enterprise environment.
Publisher
Trans Tech Publications, Ltd.
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