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Appendix A: Future Manufacturing Environment--One Person's View
Pages 59-63

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... This vision emphasizes object-oriented approaches, a view not shared by the entire committee.
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... and grants it privileges to carry out its role. As factory models change and adapt to local or enterprise circumstances, appropriate object behavior models respond and are modified according to synchronized horizon times or real-time as appropriate.
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... The actual routing of messages and information is a function of the underlying distributed communication services and is not a concern of objects. Standardized object communication classes are inherited by objects used in the factory and enterprise, and so they may share certain common communication capabilities as well as have specific capabilities as required.
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Key Terms

  • underlying communication
  • factory equipment
  • communication mechanisms
  • standardized object
  • class definition

  • object class
  • process material
  • external process
  • object communication
  • horizon times

  • equipment control
  • factory model
  • models respond
  • incorporate equipment
  • communication capabilities

  • test runs
  • server receives
  • specific calibration
  • factory models
  • object nature

  • appropriate waiting
  • distributed object
  • interaction environment
  • similar object
  • factory server

  • equipment capabilities
  • abstract object
  • server builds
  • behaviors incorporate
  • equipment sends


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