Scalable Enterprise Systems: Life Cycle Product Information Systems for Scalable and Sustainable Enterprises

这笔资金用于开发和演示基于分布式、多企业和网络化信息模块系统的生命周期产品信息软件模型。在这一模式应用中，企业将提供有关其自身商品和服务的信息，并有能力汇总有关企业自身环境业绩的信息。产品将有自己的信息系统来记录其制造和使用。通过供应链上的沟通，可以快速评估任何特定产品的成本、相关信息(如维修手册)和环境影响。虚拟产品记录可以被合成，以帮助评估替代供应链或产品设计。信息将从单个产品，通过公司业绩指标和多家公司的地理聚合进行扩展。有效的供应链物流和环境管理系统是成功、可扩展和可持续企业的基本要素之一。物流和制造支持在商业时代可能比早期的营销时代更重要，因为客户要求快速可靠地完成订单。环境管理制度同样是必要的，因为消费者和社会要求产品和服务的生产对环境的影响更低，以确保可持续的未来。通过这项研究，我们将调查产品信息的分布式模型，使可扩展的企业、政府监管机构和消费者能够了解特定产品对经济和环境影响的整个生命周期。

0075545HendricksonThis grant provides funding to develop and to demonstrate a software model of life cycle product information based on a distributed, multi-enterprise and networked system of information modules. In this model application, enterprises would provide information on their own goods and services as well as have the capability to aggregate information on the environmental performance of the enterprise itself. Products would have their own information systems to document their manufacture and use. With communication along the supply chain, the costs, associated information (e.g. repair manuals), and environmental impacts of any particular product could be rapidly assessed. Virtual product records could be synthesized to help assess alternative supply chains or product designs. Information would be scalable from individual products, through corporate performance indicators and geographic aggregations of multiple corporations.Effective supply chain logistics and environmental management systems are among the essential elements for successful scalable and sustainable enterprises. Logistics and manufacturing support may be of even greater importance in the age of commerce than in earlier marketing eras, as customers demand rapid and reliable order fulfillment. Environmental management systems are equally necessary as consumers and society demand lower environmental impact from the production of goods and services in order to secure a sustainable future. It this research, we will investigate distributed models of product information that would allow scalable enterprises, government regulators and consumers to understand the entire life cycle of economic and environmental impacts for particular products.