Codifying Knowledge About Agile Business Practices

*9628949马龙这笔赠款为建立敏捷制造知识库的研究提供资金。该知识库的目的将是收集和传播关于敏捷制造和其他敏捷商业实践的知识。该项目将开发概念方法和软件工具，以帮助收集、编码、组织和分发关于敏捷制造实践的信息。本研究的主要目的是论证所提出的方法的可行性，并开发扩展和维护敏捷性知识库的工具和方法。这项研究将建立在《流程手册》项目和智能信息基础设施项目的基础上，前者正在开发分析业务流程的方法和业务流程说明的在线储存库，后者正在开发工具以促进大规模电子讨论和积累大量知识和经验。如果成功，这项研究将加强敏捷制造领域正在进行的活动。它应该能够从几个敏捷制造项目中收集信息，并在项目本身和寻求实施敏捷实践的行业中传播这些信息。敏捷制造项目的总体目标是提高美国工业的生产率和盈利能力。***

*** 9628949 Malone This grant provides funding for research leading to the establishment of a knowledge base for agile manufacturing. The purpose of the knowledge base will be to collect and disseminate knowledge about agile manufacturing and other agile business practices. The project will develop conceptual methodologies and software tools to help gather, codify, organize, and distribute information on agile manufacturing practices. The primary objectives of this research are to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed approach and to develop the tools and methods to expand and maintain an agility knowledge base. This research will build on the Process Handbook project, which is developing methodologies for analyzing business processes and an on-line repository of business process descriptions, and the Intelligent Information Infrastructure Project, which is developing tools for facilitating large scale electronic discussions and for accumulating bodies of knowledge and experience. If successful, this research will augment ongoing activities in the area of agile manufacturing. It should enable the collection of information from several agile manufacturing projects and provide for the dissemination of that information within the projects themselves and to industry seeking to implement agile practices. The overall objective of the agile manufacturing projects is to increase the productivity and profitability of U.S. industry. ***