A List of Responders
Virtual Manufacturing Background Project
Ivar.Blikoe@protek.unit.no SINTEF Production Engineering Ivar Bliko Rich. Birkelands vei 2B Tel. +47 73 59 31 38 N-7034 TRONDHEIM Dir. line +47 73 59 29 48 NORWAY Fax +47 73 59 70 43
Short presentation: SINTEF Production Engineering SINTEF (The Foundation for Scientific and Industrial Research at The Norwegian Institute of Technology) performs contract research and development for industry and the public sector. 1250 of the SINTEF group's 2140 employees in Trondheim, Oslo and Mo i Rana are researchers. SINTEF is the largest independent research organization in Scandinavia and serves both Norwegian and foreign clients. The SINTEF group had a total turnover of 188 MECU in 1993. Contracts for industry and the public sector accounted for 78% of the operating revenues. SINTEF has its roots from the Norwegian institute of technology (NTH). The group cooperates closely both with NTH and the rest of the University of Trondheim. The SINTEF group also cooperates with the University of Oslo. SINTEF Production Engineering has 45 employees. R&D activities and industrial applications are performed in different areas. Of interest for this project are: - Section for Production Systems - Computer aided product development - 3D modeling - Rapid prototyping (layer manufacturing technology - LMT) - Complex machining - Technology planning - Manufacturing processes - Machine tools - Robot technology - Information modeling - Product, process and enterprise modeling =09 - Section for Production Management - Production planning and control - Logistics - Modeling and Simulation - Project Management =09 - Total Quality Management - Productivity Management - Business Process Reengineering - Benchmarking - Self Assessment - Productivity Center - Productivity analysis - Benchmarking ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------- Virtual Manufacturing: The topics related to this aspect are of great interest for our department. We are now working with a project of Enterprise Modeling, MNEMOS (described later), and as a part of own strategic competence development, we have started a research program on Virtual Manufacturing. In addition we work with proposals related to methodology and modeling of Business Processes. relevant work: SINTEF Production Engineering are involved in project with relations to Virtual Production. A research program for the next 3 years will work with Enterprise Modeling. Reliable models are necessary as tools and decision platforms for philosophies as Concurrent Engineering, Business Process Reengineering and Virtual Manufacturing.=20 Our work will contribute to Methodology, Generic Models, Modeling technology and Simulation of a Virtual Enterprise. The work is supported by the Norwegian Research Council.=20 The work has just started, and key results from MNEMOS will be implemented. MNEMOS is a EUREKA project addressing corporate memory. It is planned for four years, and started in 1994.=20 The major objective of MNEMOS project is to develop a new generation of information systems to increase the competitively of the enterprise through a better circulation of the corporate knowledge, a more efficient management and support to the human creativity processes.=20 Such a project is more than a pure technological development; it integrates the organization of the work and the computer sciences, the knowledge management and the human behavior, the semantic oriented techniques and the risk analysis.=20 During 1994, the Norwegian partners (AT&T GIS, NFT, Raufoss, SINTEF) have focused on methodology and tool support for construction of active knowledge models, and construction of models at the two application providers (NFT and Raufoss). The Norwegian part is funded by the Norwegian Research Council and the partners.=20 In 1995, the French partners (Matra Marconi Space, Aerospatial, BULL, Cedria, University of Rouen) have joined the project. The French part is funded by the French Ministry of Industry and the partners.=20 More info on : http://www.delab.sintef.no/MNEMOS/dir.html
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