A Framework of Conflict Management System for the Virtual Manufacturing Environment

The partners in a virtual manufacturing organization readily incline to reduce their efforts for worrying about loses resulted from uncertainties, which might result in various conflicts among partners. It is imperative for a virtual manufacturing organization to design an effective conflict management mechanism in order to maintain the stability of cooperation relationship. Based on the analysis of the complex interaction of integrated workflow in virtual manufacturing, an extensive conflict management mechanism (ECMM) was proposed for dynamically coordinating the partners. This ECMM transforms various conflicts into the basic one between cost and expected profit of each partner, which significantly simplifies the conflicts management process in practice. In order to support the ECMM, a distributed information system with an integrated database was designed for the regionally distributed partners. The solution logic of the system expresses the logical connection of several main functions, such as the dynamic cost planning/audit, partner’s attributes, conflict analysis and solution, and profits sharing management. It is the toughest challenge in development of the information system to embed some artificial techniques into the solution logic.

Visualization of Milling Processes on Internet

In current environment of simultaneous product development, the Internet is being recognized as the best platform for implementation of virtual manufacturing organization located at different global places. This paper represents a step towards the integration of product development teams and introduces a novel method for visualization of manufacturing processes in order to verify the process plans generated. The paper presents the pilot implementation in VRML with JavaScript as a scripting language for dynamic nature of the program. Using the concepts of Geometric representation of the Manufacturing processes a program in C++ language is developed, which supplies data for animation. The results are presented on Internet by developing a web page for Visualization of Manufacturing Processes.