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Electronic Integrated Product Development as Enabled by a Global Information Environment: A Requirement for Success in the Twenty-first Century
Pages 469-478

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From page 469...
... Scarborough, and Frank David Uttetback McDonnell Douglas Corporation This paper discusses the needs manufacturing organizations will face In the near fixture In working electronically and collaboratively to develop, market, and support products for the global marketplace. One of the necessary conditions for success is a rich and robust information environment.
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From page 470...
... A world war followed by the beginning of the Cold War put increasing emphasis on survival, and thus on product performance in increasingly complex missions. Cost retreated furler as a major consideration.
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From page 471...
... Our IPD teams include customers, Laming partners, subcontractors, and suppliers. As we execute IPD, we have come to understand the prime Importance of our information assets, and we are taking steps to analyze and evolve these assets-old and new to make their provision to IPD teams adequate for He purposes of decisionmaking and task execution in an electronic IPD environment.
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From page 472...
... FORECAST Common among successfi~} manufactunng organizations will be their ability to assemble themselves In whatever virtual configurations are necessary to identifier, scope, pursue, and capture business, and Hen perform to specifications within budget and schedule constraints. Business wait be won and executed by virtual enterprises.
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From page 473...
... In the desired near-fi~ture state, they must also perform in much the same way for Me variety of virtual enterprises In which individual organizations may find themselves. Lessons from Experience To help identify specific requirements and obstacles, we now summarize MDC's practical experiences to date In our initial exercise of electronic IPD.
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From page 474...
... No attempt was made initially to include the basic or optional functions identified in MW-STD-974; this functionality was to be added ins as required for a ems under specific contracts. What we found as we demonstrated this proof of concept to various customers and suppliers was that there were immediate opportunities to use the CITIS Node, in all its s~mplicibr, for exchange of production data.
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From page 475...
... A Collaborative Information Environment Our primary recommendation is that industry and government together must define and describe an information environment to support electronic integrated product development-and most other kinds of business interactions-as camed out in virtual enterprises. They must then jointly implement and enhance this
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From page 476...
... It wall also require an innovative approach to gathering requirements, validating elements of the environment, and aggressively addressing common problems and issues In much shorter time frames Man those experienced today. A proactive collaborative approach is necessary to quickly identity and emplace a basic information environment that can then be developed as aggressively as available resources, technology, and culture wall allow.
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From page 477...
... The logical course is to move to the Open Software Foundation Distributed Computing Environment, supplemented with security products based on public-key encryption such as RSA (named after its authors, Rivest, Shamir, and Adelman)
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From page 478...
... The work plan should be of sufficient detail to allow selection of the best means to achieve each major deliverable. An existing org~n~tion that would be a viable candidate is We CALS Industry Steering Group aSG)
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