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Manufacturing plays a central role in successfully competing in international markets. Improving a company’s manufacturing capability and, consequently its posture in global markets, requires that the company respond more rapidly to market opportunities. The rate at which new product ideas mature to commodity status is increasing, resulting in a growing emphasis on time-to-market as a key competitive differentiator. Realizing these new efficiencies in product development requires that organizations interconnect, software systems interoperate, and individuals interact. These challenges are being addressed by the National Industrial Information Infrastructure Protocols (NIIIP) Consortium in its work to define and develop virtual enterprise technology. This paper will present an overview of NIIIP technology and discuss in more detail a program deploying NIIIP technology to establish new standards for integrating manufacturing applications, focusing on manufacturing execution systems.
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Bolton, R., Dewey, A., Goldschmidt, A., Horstmann, P. (1997). NIIIP — The National Industrial Information Infrastructure Protocols for Industrial Enterprise Integration: Enabling the Virtual Enterprise (USA Project). In: Kosanke, K., Nell, J.G. (eds) Enterprise Engineering and Integration. Research Reports Esprit. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60889-6_32
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