陸益昌

Virtual enterprise is viewed as one of the most promising business strategies for manufacturing industries to meet global competition. The essence of virtual enterprising is to integrate the processes, activities, and resources from different enterprises through enterprise alliance and to quickly respond to customer expectations Therefore, how to effectively manage the business activities and control the process across the boundary of enterprises is the new challenge of industry. At the same time, to provide a computer-based tool for effective inter-enterprise process control is the goal of software companies. The objective of this research is to facilitate the coordination and process control of virtual enterprising and thus help achieve the goals of virtual enterprise through advancing the methodology and technology of inter-enterprise process control and coordination. The objective can be obtained by: (1) developing a methodology and procedure for process control and coordination across the boundary of enterprises, (2) developing the core technologies for inter-enterprise process control and coordination based on the proposed methodology, and (3) developing an inter-enterprise process control system using the core technologies. To achieve the research goal, the characterization of virtual enterprise, and analysis and modeling on virtual process are first conducted. The results are then employed for development of the methodology for inter-enterprise process control and coordination. According to the methodology, the enabling technologies are identified and developed. Finally, an inter-enterprise process control system is developed based on the proposed methodology and developed technologies using the object-oriented system analysis and design methodology - UML.