Intelligent products: Agere versus Essere☆☆☆ Export

@article{citeulike:4738766, abstract = {The notion of an intelligent product places suitability for integration firmly on the research agenda. Indeed, this paradigm aims for coordination and integration on a scale that is unseen until today. Note that this applies particularly where it concerns the core businesses of companies. For that reason, this paper presents a novel concept, the intelligent being , as a vehicle to achieve suitability for integration. The concept is applied to intelligent product instances, intelligent product types and intelligent resources alike. The paper identifies: (1) which services and functionalities can be offered by intelligent beings, (2) what are suitable candidate intelligent beings, and what are not. The paper shows that intelligent beings can reflect a corresponding reality – a product – in its current, past and future states. It thus argues for a role of the intelligent being that is analogous to what maps contribute in navigation systems (and may become as important).}, author = {Valckenaers, Paul and Germain, Bart S. and Verstraete, Paul and Van Belle, Jan and Hadeli and Van Brussel, Hendrik}, citeulike-article-id = {4738766}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compind.2008.12.008}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0166361508001577}, doi = {10.1016/j.compind.2008.12.008}, issn = {01663615}, journal = {Computers in Industry}, keywords = {manufacturing\_control}, month = {April}, number = {3}, pages = {217--228}, posted-at = {2009-06-09 08:40:26}, priority = {2}, title = {Intelligent products: Agere versus Essere☆☆☆}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compind.2008.12.008}, volume = {60}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4738766 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4738766 N2 - The notion of an intelligent product places suitability for integration firmly on the research agenda. Indeed, this paradigm aims for coordination and integration on a scale that is unseen until today. Note that this applies particularly where it concerns the core businesses of companies. For that reason, this paper presents a novel concept, the intelligent being , as a vehicle to achieve suitability for integration. The concept is applied to intelligent product instances, intelligent product types and intelligent resources alike. The paper identifies: (1) which services and functionalities can be offered by intelligent beings, (2) what are suitable candidate intelligent beings, and what are not. The paper shows that intelligent beings can reflect a corresponding reality – a product – in its current, past and future states. It thus argues for a role of the intelligent being that is analogous to what maps contribute in navigation systems (and may become as important). IS - 3 JF - Computers in Industry SN - 01663615 EP - 228 TI - Intelligent products: Agere versus Essere☆☆☆ VL - 60 SP - 217 KW - manufacturing_control AU - Valckenaers, Paul AU - Germain, Bart AU - Verstraete, Paul AU - Van Belle, Jan AU - Hadeli AU - Van Brussel, Hendrik PY - 2009/04// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compind.2008.12.008 ER -