Virtual Enterprise and Information Sharing Management in Virtual Enterprise

The concept and characteristics of virtual enterprise are discussed and an integrated framework is proposed as well. The emphasis is on the analysis of requirement and the presentation of a general approach for information sharing management in virtual enterprise. This approach consists of sharing management coordinator and application management coordinator which provides a method for communication among CAx systems that use the STEP (Standard for the Exchange of Product Data) product model as global conceptual view of data. Since the dynamic modeling and binding techniques are used for description and operation, this approach has flexibility and can manage information transmission and treatment efficiently.