Knowledge management is the process through which organizations generatevalue from their <strong>in</strong>tellectual and knowledge-based assets. The world of <strong>in</strong>dustry hasbeen changed by the develop<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong><strong>format</strong>ion <strong>in</strong>frastructure. Over the past few years,the Internet has been a market maker, a market destroyer, an <strong>in</strong>dustry change-agent,and even an <strong>in</strong>verter of traditional ways of conduct<strong>in</strong>g bus<strong>in</strong>ess. The Internet andWeb technologies have presented established firms with both opportunities as wellas threats. Several buzzwords such as E-hubs, Internet exchanges, E-markets, E-procurement, and E-exchanges have been co<strong>in</strong>ed by <strong>in</strong>dustry to refer to differentmodels of B2B E-commerce (Ranganathan, 2003).However, only few of the started projects have been susta<strong>in</strong>able. A survey oforganizations, <strong>in</strong> which enterprise systems management solutions were deployed,found that only 24% of the implementations were considered successful, 64% ofmanagement had mixed feel<strong>in</strong>gs about the success of the projects, and therema<strong>in</strong>der felt their projects were failures (Gallagher, 1998). That is becausemodern e-systems set high requirements to their reliability and safety. Reliabilitybenchmark<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>dicates that 70% of reliability issues are operations <strong>in</strong>duced versusthe mechanical <strong>in</strong>tegrity concerns (Birchfield, 2000). The impact and knowledge ofa s<strong>in</strong>gle person is a critical factor <strong>in</strong> success of the process unit operation(Schustereit, 2002). Especially it applies to rare conditions that require promptactions and are hard to predict or occur sporadically. Decision support systems thatcan predict process behaviour <strong>in</strong> critical situations will significantly reduce the riskof hazard conditions and allow optimis<strong>in</strong>g of process parameters. The conventionalmanufactur<strong>in</strong>g plann<strong>in</strong>g is based on the priority of relations between the part andthe manufactur<strong>in</strong>g plan. Available mach<strong>in</strong>e tools are def<strong>in</strong>ed from the set of exist<strong>in</strong>g<strong>in</strong> the companies’ mach<strong>in</strong>e tools. The set can be expanded when the concept ofvirtual enterprise or extended enterprise is used. Schedul<strong>in</strong>g process should be <strong>in</strong>good accord with process planners us<strong>in</strong>g different task variants (“down-up” processplann<strong>in</strong>g) (Papstel, 2003). The specific mach<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g database stores related data onthe available mach<strong>in</strong>es, the k<strong>in</strong>ds of operation that can be performed by eachmach<strong>in</strong>e, quality parameters <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g obta<strong>in</strong>able surface f<strong>in</strong>ish for <strong>in</strong>dividualmach<strong>in</strong>es, and operat<strong>in</strong>g cost for each mach<strong>in</strong>e (Shehab, 2002). An enterpriseshould expand the bus<strong>in</strong>ess market to the customer and supplier, which causes theenterprises to be expanded and globalized. Advanced manufactur<strong>in</strong>g models, <strong>in</strong>which the member enterprises located <strong>in</strong> different regions, or even distributedthroughout the world, have closer relationships and collaborative benefits bycooperat<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> the development of products, which need Internet/Extranet/Intranetbased<strong>in</strong><strong>format</strong>ion systems to support mutually beneficial collaboration <strong>in</strong> qualitymanagement activities among its members (Tang, 2002).At a cluster level, know<strong>in</strong>g the real-time functionality expectations andevaluat<strong>in</strong>g the experience on speed performance and limits of data <strong>in</strong>teractionamount of commercial solutions drive the cluster to build up a new system(Viharos, 2003).A survey of e-Work applications (Nof, 2005) has shown, that e-X is not the sameas X. e-Work and e-Production/e-Bus<strong>in</strong>ess are not the same as work, production,and bus<strong>in</strong>ess. A traditional operation cannot be copied as-is to an e-Activity, somechanges must be made. For example, compar<strong>in</strong>g a search for <strong>in</strong><strong>format</strong>ion by threegenerations of specialists (a. Search through manual records; b. Search of a12
database by a query; c. Search of the Web by a browser) one can realise that they allare different.1.2. Problem sett<strong>in</strong>gThe recent trend <strong>in</strong> mach<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g is to add <strong>in</strong>telligence to the mach<strong>in</strong>e tools and CNCsystem (Alt<strong>in</strong>tas, 2000). International technology research centres forecast that forthe year 2010 about 90–95% of <strong>in</strong><strong>format</strong>ion on the Web will be tied with<strong>in</strong>tercommunication of <strong>in</strong>telligent mach<strong>in</strong>es for solv<strong>in</strong>g predeterm<strong>in</strong>ed tasks, andonly the rema<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g relatively small part is connected to direct humancommunications. The term Intelligent Mach<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g Module (IMM) has been brought<strong>in</strong>to use to describe CNC systems that allow limited manipulation of mach<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>gconditions by the end users, but where additional sensors, which can measure theforces, vibrations, temperature, and sound dur<strong>in</strong>g mach<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g, are <strong>in</strong>stalled onmach<strong>in</strong>e tools. Various <strong>in</strong>telligent mach<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g tasks, such as adaptive control, toolcondition monitor<strong>in</strong>g and process control, can simultaneously run on the system(Håkansson, 1999). To reach this goal the system has to be equipped withmeasurement hardware and data transfer and -process<strong>in</strong>g software and analysismethods. Integration of different sensors and measur<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>struments <strong>in</strong>to a uniformsystem is a problem of the modern technological mach<strong>in</strong>ery (Russo, 1999).Mathematical models, which correlate the relationship between measured sensorsignals and state of mach<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g, are formed. The mathematical models are coded <strong>in</strong>toreal-time algorithms, which monitor the mach<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g process and send commands toCNC for corrective actions. It appears that the exist<strong>in</strong>g knowledge based decisionsupport systems, e.g. Nexus Oz from Nexus Eng<strong>in</strong>eer<strong>in</strong>g or neural network systemshave certa<strong>in</strong> disadvantages: a system could fail <strong>in</strong> previously unknown conditionsand require tens of years of experience to fulfil database of real needs. Therefore,some additional techniques should be developed for a more effective support ofcontrol of eng<strong>in</strong>eer<strong>in</strong>g systems.1.3. Ma<strong>in</strong> objectivesThe primary aim of this work is the development of a general concept andmathematical models for monitor<strong>in</strong>g technological processes and productionsystems <strong>in</strong> eng<strong>in</strong>eer<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong>dustry suitable for SME.To obta<strong>in</strong> the goal the follow<strong>in</strong>g tasks have to be solved.• Firstly, data flows <strong>in</strong> mach<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g units should be analysed and modelledregard<strong>in</strong>g both technological process and characteristics of the mach<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g units(MU).• Secondly, the models should be generated by us<strong>in</strong>g certa<strong>in</strong> patterns which couldbe verified.13
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