PROJECTS DEALING WITH VIRTUAL/EXTENDED ENTERPRISES

• NIIIP

• SCM+ - Beyond Supply Chain Management

• VEGA 1 - Cooperative Support Systems for Virtual Enterprises

• VEGA - Virtual Enterprises using Groupware tools and distributed Architectures ( ESPRIT 20408)

• CALS - Continuous Acquisition and Lifecycle Support (JAPAN)

• CALS - Continuous Acquisition and Lifecycle Support (US)

• VPSB - Virtual Parts Supply Base

• ToCEE - Towards a Concurrent Engineering Environment in the Building and Engineering Structures Industry (ESPRIT 20587)

• VENTO - A Virtual Enterprise Organiser-Development of Advanced Groupware Tools Supporting Synergy Among Enterprises in the Emerging Global Market

• EVENT - Effectiveness in the Virtual Enterprise Through the Information Infrastructure

• MUSSELS - Multi-SiteS Enterprises Logistic control System. (ESPRIT 25226)

• European RTD projects

• Information about ESPRIT projects

• International Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS) Projects.

• Best Manufacturing Practices Program by the US Navy MANTECH Projects.

• Next Generation Manufacturing Projects by the US Agility Forum.

• Metrics for the Agile Virtual Enterprise (MAVE) by US Agility Forum.

• Flexcell Group -- A virtual enterprise of the Flexible Production Network.

• Agile Infrastructure for Manufacturing Systems (AIMSNet) Project at Lockheed Martin.

• Integrated Intelligent Manufacturing Group at Alberta Research Council.

• Advanced Manufacturing Technology Initiative at Sandia Manufacturing Technologies Center.

• Fast and Flexible Agile Manufacturing Projects at MIT.

• The Enterprise Engineering Program at ARRI of University of Texas at Arlington.

• Technology Enabling Agile Manufacturing (TEAM) Project.

• Integrated Manufacuring and Design Environment (IMADE) Project at UC Berkeley.

• Enterprise Integration for Manufacturing Systems project in Boston University.

• Emerging Manufacturing Technology Research Projects at ICEMT of Iowa State University.

• Rapid Prototyping of Shop Floor Control for CIM (RapidCIM) and Simulation-based Control of Flexible Manufacturing Systems at Texas A&M Computer Aided Manufacturing Lab.

• Global Engineering Network (GEN) -- An European driven initiative.

• Virtual Enterprise Supply Chain Planning and Control -- The European X-CITTIC Project.
• Global Business Re-engineering -- The European GLOBE (ESPRIT 21973) Project.

• The Coalition for Intelligent Manufacturing Systems -- America's industry particiation in the International IMS Project.

• The US Air Force Materials Process Design -- Research towards VIRTUAL material processing via information highways.

• ESPRIT Project 20.544 X-CITTIC - A Planning and Control System for Semicondutor Virtual Enterprise
  
  
  
  WORKFLOW RELATED LINKS
  
  
• NATO ASI - Home Page of NATO ASI on Workflow Management Systems and Interoperability

• Amber - An Architecture for Extensible Workflow Process Servers

• Workflow News

• WfMC - Workflow Management Coalition

• METUFlow news

• Workflow and Process Automation

• LSDIS Lab at UGA

• OJP - Workflow Related Internet Resources

• Workflow Module Home Page

  
  
  
  QUALITY-ISO9000 RELATED LINKS
  
  

• Welcome to ISO Online (graphics)

• ISO 9000 & MIL-STD

• Quality Engineering & Manufacturing Association

• American Society for Quality

  
  
  
  PRIVACY & SECURITY RELATED LINKS
  
  

• E2S - End to End Security over the Internet

• SEMPER - Secure Electronic Marketplace for Europe

  
  
  
  EDI RELATED LINK
  
  

• EANCOM - an International Standard for EDI Communication

  
  
  
  OTHER LINKS
  
  

• http://www.mlb.dmt.csiro.au/pages/vme.html - Projects and Initiatives in Virtual Manufacturing Enterprise

• Fifth IFAC Workshop on Intelligent Manufacturing Systems (IMS'98), at Gramado, RS, Brazil, Nov. 9-11. (DEADLINE to contribute papers: April 30, 1998)

• Climbing and Walking Robots (CLAWAR 98), at Brussels, Belgium, Nov 26-28, 1998. (Deadlines: Abstract 31 March 1998; Paper 15 Sept. 1998).

• Virtual Reallity in Mechanical and Production Engineering (VR-MECH 98), at Brussels, Belgium, Nov 26-28, 1998. (Deadlines: Abstract 30 April 1998; Paper 15 Sept. 1998).

• International Conference on Agile Manufacturing (ICAM'98) -- "Tomorrow's Dreams -Yesterday" at University of Minnesota Campus, Minneapolis, MN USA. June 21-23, 1998 (Deadlines: Abstract 30 March 1998; Paper 15 April 1998).

• IEEE Seventh International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WET ICE'98), June 17-19, 1998 Stanford University, California, USA (Deadline: 27 February 1998)

• Intelligent Agents for Telecommunications Applicatons (IATA'98), at the Agents' World Event 1998 Cite de Sciences - La Vilette, Paris (France). (DEADLINE to contribute Papers: February 6, 1998)

• 3rd IEEE/ IFIP International Conference on INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY for BALANCED AUTOMATION SYSTEMS in Manufacturing, August 26-28, 1998 at the Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic. (Jan. 15, 1998: Deadline for submission).

• IEEE Multimedia Systems'98 Conference, June 28 - July 1, 1998, Austin, TX , USA
  (Oct. 31, 1997: Deadline for submission).

• Information Society: Looking Ahead -- Promises and Achievements, the 11th European Colloquium on IT and Society, June 10 - 12, 1998, Strasbourg, France.
  (Nov. 5, 1997: Deadline for submission of a 2 or 3 pages abstracts).

• Design of Information Infrastructure for Manufacturing (DIISM'1998), May 18-20, 1998, Fort Worth, TX, USA. (Oct. 15, 1997: Deadline for submission of abstract).
• Conference Announcements:- Engineering - Manufacturing