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Towards the development of a framework to create a virtual organisation breeding environment in the mould and die sector

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The effective creation of Virtual Enterprises emerges after the development of: (i) a new working culture and (ii) a computer-enabled infrastructure supporting inter-operation of companies. These developments are facilitated if the potential partners belong to a Virtual Organisation Breeding Environment (VBE). This paper describes a framework to create and support the life cycle of Virtual Enterprises operating (relying on a VBE) in the mould and die sector. The proposed framework is called AmbianCE and it is the result of a 5-year research project in the field of Collaborative Network Organisations. The AmbianCE framework has been validated in a Brazilian VBE called Virfebras. A peculiar characteristic of Virfebras is that many of its members are competitors.

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  1. Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica, Universidade de Caxias do Sul, Rua Francisco Getúlio Vargas, 1130, CEP 95000-270, Caxias do Sul, RS, Brazil

    R. V. Vallejos

  2. Centre Scientifique et Technique du Bâtiment (CSTB), Sophia-antipolis, France

    C. P. Lima

  3. Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil

    G. Varvakis

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Vallejos, R.V., Lima, C.P. & Varvakis, G. Towards the development of a framework to create a virtual organisation breeding environment in the mould and die sector. J Intell Manuf 18, 587–597 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10845-007-0065-1

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