Abstract
Today many industrial enterprises have to meet several challenges like individual customer production, enterprise resource planning, electronic market places, B2C and B2B communication as well as E-commerce applications. In this context supporting information systems are required, which allow the integration of heterogeneous software systems and the corresponding data sources in order to optimize both collaboration of in-house software components and data communication with other business partners. For industrial enterprises efficient management of product data is of major importance because it significantly increases the productivity of engineers and organizations that deal with information involved in the process of designing, manufacturing and maintaining a product. Electronic data interchange (EDI) is the most important prerequisite for electronic collaboration and E-commerce applications. <p>
This paper introduces a rule-based product data manager to enable integrated management of a large amount of product data as well as data interchange between several CIM components. To provide flexible and easy-to-use EDI mechanisms with other business partners or between different CIM components, a configurable interface for EDI is introduced. In this approach knowledge about data structures and data formats is separated from the file generation process. This knowledge is transformed into a meta data structure represented by XML DTDs. Data transmission is done by making use of the advantages of XML and Internet technology.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 6th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI 2002) |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Publication status | Published - Jul 2002 |
Fields of science
- 102001 Artificial intelligence
- 102006 Computer supported cooperative work (CSCW)
- 102010 Database systems
- 102014 Information design
- 102015 Information systems
- 102016 IT security
- 102028 Knowledge engineering
- 102019 Machine learning
- 102022 Software development
- 102025 Distributed systems
- 502007 E-commerce
- 505002 Data protection
- 506002 E-government
- 509018 Knowledge management
- 202007 Computer integrated manufacturing (CIM)
- 102033 Data mining
- 102035 Data science
