IFIP                       MEMBER PROFILE                        

      

Name:

Arturo Molina

Affiliation:

CSIM (Centro de Sistemas Integrados de Manufactura)

ITESM (Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey)

Contact:

Avenida Eugenio Garza Sada 2501 Sur,

Colonia Tecnológico

Monterrey, Nuevo León,

64849 MEXICO

 

Phone: 51-81-81582086

Fax: 51-81-328-4123

e-mail: armolina@campus.mty.itesm.mx

http://www.iecos.com.mx

http://www.mexican-industry.com.mx

http://csim.mty.itesm.mx/csim/

 

Main expertise and current areas of research

 

Main Expertise:

  • Enterprise Integration Engineering
  • Concurrent Engineering
  • Information Technology for e-Engineering and e-business

 Current areas of research:

  • Reference Models, Methodologies and Technologies for Enterprise Integration Engineering
  • Concurrent Engineering: industrial application and information technologies (Knowledge Based Engineering Systems, e-Engineering).
  • Extended Enterprise and Supply Chain Management
  • Virtual Enterprises and Virtual Organizations

Current projects

Acronym, Title, Brief description, Duration, URL

COSME – VIC ( COoperation of Small and Medium Enterprises - Virtual Industry Cluster): 

Design, development and management of a virtual industry cluster (industry network). The project includes the design and creation of the cluster, development of business process, methodologies and supporting technology for virtual industry cluster management.  The project has created 7 industry clusters: casting, die and tools, CNC machining, metalworking,  plastic and rubber, stamping and finishing processes.  It includes 31 Mexican SMEs. Duration of the project:  November 1999 - December 2002.  (www.mexican-industry.com.mx).

COSME – VEB (COoperation of Small and Medium Enterprises - Virtual Enterprise Broker):

Design, development and management of a virtual enterprise broker.  The project includes the definition of the business plan and incubation of the enterprise IECOS (Integration Engineering and COnstruction Systems).  Design and definition of the business processes, methodologies and supporting technologies.  Creation of 3 virtual enterprises to satisfy business opportunities related to new product development, engineering and construction service, new technology and commercialization. ).  Duration of the project:  August 2001 – December 2002.  (www.iecos.com.mx)

EE-Factory (Extended Enterprise – demonstration Factory): 

The Extended Enterprise Demonstration Factory (EE-Factory) Program rises from the necessity of developing a framework for research, education and training on the concept of Extended Enterprise. In the every-day changing manufacturing environment, for an effective decision-making, real-time information from the enterprise, customers and suppliers is essential, additionally, shop floor control and integration is required for an adequate response to customers changing demand.  The EE - Factory program has been designed to demonstrate and transfer this concept to the companies and to educate and train engineers. Duration of the project:  January 2002 – December 2003.

(no URL available yet).

Global e-Engineering (Global Collaborative Engineering Environment for Integrated Product Development using Internet 2).    

This research will design and implement a Global Collaborative Engineering Environment for Research and Education, named Global e-Engineering.  The environment will integrate Web-based Applications which will support engineering activities for design and manufacturing of High Tech products.  In order to support specific design activities CAD/CAM/CAE tools will be integrated; to coordinate activities of design and manufacturing engineers, process models, workflow and project management software will be used; to foster the collaboration between engineers, net-meeting, forums, chats, multicasting, e-mail and shared spaces applications will be included; and for Information/Knowledge management, product and manufacturing models will be developed. The testbed demonstration of the Global e-Engineering environment will be carried out by offering a collaborative course between UC - Berkeley and Tec de Monterrey during summer of 2002.  ).  Duration of the project:  September 2001 – August 2002.

(no URL available yet).