SBIR Phase I: Target Costing for the Virtual Manufacturing Enterprise

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目通过开发一种新的目标成本计算系统，使小公司在商业虚拟制造企业中进行合作，从而提高知识和理解。 该项目的合作伙伴包括两家领先的虚拟制造企业。引入的原始概念包括成本数据和模型共享，以及对访问和使用的控制，以保护专有信息和竞争优势。 该项目将开发一个开放源码的桌面和服务器客户端，使公司可以很容易地与他们的内部财务和其他软件系统集成。该项目还广泛使用开源软件基础设施和组件的最新进展，以减少上市时间、成本、采用风险和技术过时。该计划的预期成果是成本计算软件，该软件将使虚拟制造企业成为可能，以便小公司可以合作提供综合制造服务。该项目具有商业价值，这从两家领先的虚拟制造企业的支持信中可以看出。 这些企业是这一努力的合作伙伴、投资者和客户。通过合作伙伴，结果将被广泛传播，因为开源客户端，数据格式和网络服务描述将被发布，供他人使用。使虚拟制造企业能够拥有成本估算和管理软件基础设施，将使小公司能够合作并联合收割机结合其能力，以实现更低成本和更高价值的产品。

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project advances knowledge and understanding by developing a novel target costing system for small companies to collaborate in commercial virtual manufacturing enterprises. Partners in this project include two leading virtual manufacturing enterprises. The original concepts introduced include the cost data and model sharing with controls over access and use to protect proprietary information and competitive advantage. The project will develop an open source desktop and server clients so that companies can easily integrate with their internal financial and other software systems. The project also extensively uses recent advances in open source software infrastructure and components to reduce time to market, costs, adoption risk, and technical obsolescence. The anticipated results of the program will be costing software that will enable virtual manufacturing enterprises so that small companies can partner to provide integrated manufacturing services.The project has commercial value as evidenced by the letters of support from two leading virtual manufacturing enterprises. These enterprises are partners, investors, and customers for this effort. Through the partners the results will be widely disseminated because the open source client, data formats and web service descriptions that will be published for others to build on. Enabling virtual manufacturing enterprises with cost estimating and management software infrastructure will allow small companies to collaborate and combine their capabilities to realize products with lower cost and higher value.