Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is one of the driving factors for the success of the enterprises. However, recently it was pointed out that companies need resource management rather than resource planning (www.imti21.org). ...

Today's highly competitive business environment forces the managers to continuously make the best decisions in the shortest possible time. The ability to provide concurrency among manufacturing functions is a critical need ...

One of the most important aspects of knowledge management (KM) is to create a system that is capable of providing mechanisms and methodologies allowing the right knowledge to be at the right place and at the right person ...

To acquire a competitive advantage in the expanding market, manufacturing companies should be able to manage their supply chain as much effective as possible. Measuring the supply chain performance is one of the main ...

Swarm intelligence is the emergent collective intelligence of groups of simple autonomous agents which are autonomous subsystems that interact with their environment. This paper presents a performance evaluation system for ...

Simulating complex and distributed manufacturing systems is not easy using traditional simulation techniques. Manufacturing environment contains several systems that must interoperate and exchange information. General ...