Codifying Knowledge About Agile Business Practices

*** 9628949 Malone这项拨款为建立敏捷制造知识库的研究提供资金。知识库的目的是收集和传播有关敏捷制造和其他敏捷业务实践的知识。该项目将开发概念性方法和软件工具，以帮助收集、编纂、组织和分发有关敏捷制造实践的信息。本研究的主要目标是证明所提出的方法的可行性，并开发工具和方法来扩展和维护敏捷知识库。这项研究将建立在“过程手册”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过程的方法和业务过程描述的在线存储库，后者正在开发促进大规模电子讨论和积累知识和经验的工具。如果成功，这项研究将扩大敏捷制造领域正在进行的活动。它应该能够收集来自多个敏捷制造项目的信息，并在项目内部和寻求实现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力和盈利能力。＊＊＊

*** 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. ***