Title: The Management and Exchange of
Knowledge
And Innovation in Environments of Collaborating SMALL and Medium Sized
Enterprises
Abstract:The importance of small and
medium
sized enterprises (SMEs) is today far beyond any discussion in
countries
all over the world - in European countries as well as in Asia and in
USA,
in Africa as well as in Latin America. To meet market demands in
present
and future global industrial world, manufacturing enterprises of any
kind
and any size must be flexible and agile enough to respond quickly to
product
demand changes. With support of artificial intelligence and modern
information
technology it is possible to realise modern cost-effective
customer-driven
design and manufacturing taking into account the importance and basic
role
of quality management and metrology. This will be especially possible
on
the basis of the innovative concept and model for modern enterprises
the
so-called "Multi-Functions Integrated Factory - MFIF" that makes
possible
an agile and optimal industrial production in any kind of industry and
especially
in up-to-date SMEs.
Author: P.H. Osanna , N.M. Durakbasa, L. Crisan,
and J.
M. Bauer