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... Equipment and stations within factories, entire manufacturing enterprises, and webs of suppliers, partners, and customers located throughout the world can be more effectively connected and integrated through the use of information technology. Information technology provides the tools to achieve coals that are wideIv regarded as critical to the future of manufacturing: rapid shifts in production from one product to another; faster implementation of new concepts in products and faster delivery of products to customers; more intimate interactions with customers, who more directly and completely specify what they need; fuller utilization of capital; and streamlining of operations to focus on what is essential to a business and to eliminate unnecessary activities.
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... Such research would support both manufacturing process modeling and the design of the products to be manufactured The descriptions and models of manufacturing processes in their wide variety will be used to design and operate factories, as well as to experiment with and evaluate control and organizational changes before actual systems are installed. Process representations will also be used to enhance product ~ .
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... Beyond better network-related facilities there is a need for better technology for the exchange of information, information services to support integration of applications, and standard representations, protocols, libraries, and query languages. This preliminary report provides a detailed overview of these and complementary recommendations, which are presented according to a framework that is consistent with that of the Advanced Manufacturing Technology Initiative of the Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, and Technology.


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