A MANUFACTURING INFORMATION SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

Kweku-Muata Osei-Bryson, Delvin Grant

2004

Abstract

The 21st century marketplace poses many challenges for modern manufacturing organizations thus requiring them to display increased levels of agility supported by an effective information systems infrastructure. The objective of this paper is to propose an Information Systems Architecture that meets the challenges of modern manufacturing organizations. For the manufacturing information systems architecture (MISA) to successfully meet these challenges it must satisfy five objectives: 1. Support the Value Chain Activities; 2. Support the interactions among the five Interacting Organizational Variables (i.e. Task, Communication, Technology, People, Structure); 3. Effectively deal with Industry Factors and Forces; 4. Integrate the organization internally and with its environment; and 5. Address other Enterprise Engineering issues. We present a MISA that satisfies these five objectives.

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Osei-Bryson K. and Grant D. (2004). A MANUFACTURING INFORMATION SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY . In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 972-8865-00-7, pages 457-463. DOI: 10.5220/0002618904570463


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@conference{iceis04,
author={Kweku-Muata Osei-Bryson and Delvin Grant},
title={A MANUFACTURING INFORMATION SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2004},
pages={457-463},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002618904570463},
isbn={972-8865-00-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - A MANUFACTURING INFORMATION SYSTEMS ARCHITECTURE FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
SN - 972-8865-00-7
AU - Osei-Bryson K.
AU - Grant D.
PY - 2004
SP - 457
EP - 463
DO - 10.5220/0002618904570463