Table of Contents

Foreword.- I. Introduction to Information-Based Manufacturing.- Information-Based Manufacturing with the Web.- Information-Based Manufacturing in the Informational Age (Industrial Application Case: John Deere).- The Information Technology Productivity Paradox Revisited: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation in the Manufacturing Sector.- II. Supply-Chain Management.- Product Hardware Complexity and Its Impact on Inventory and Customer On-Time Delivery (Industrial Application Case: IBM).- Agent-Oriented Supply-Chain Management.- Reengineering the Order Fulfillment Process in Supply Chain Networks.- III. Modeling the Information-Based Manufacturing Systems, Processes, and the Enterprise.- Integrated Modeling Framework for Manufacturing Systems: A Unified Representation of the Physical Process and Information System.- On the Dependability Design of Manufacturing Information Systems.- Object-Oriented Modeling for Flexible Manufacturing Systems.- The Application of Enterprise Modeling for Aerospace Manufacturing System Integration.- IV. Infrastructure and Control for Information-Based Manufacturing.- Performance Analysis of Auction-Based Distributed Shop-Floor Control Schemes from the Perspective of the Communication System.- A Decentralized Approach to Estimate Activity-Based Costs and Near-Optimal Resource Allocation in Flexible Manufacturing Systems.- V. Managing the Information-Based Manufacturing Life Cycles.- Design-to-Manufacturing Information Management for Electronics Assembly (Industrial Application Case: Motorola).- Manufacturing Cost Modeling for Product Design (Industrial Application Case: Motorola).- Information-Based Dynamic Manufacturing System Scheduling.

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