| ICT in shipbuilding supply chain collaboration |
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| Written by Administrator | |
| Sunday, 20 April 2008 | |
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This definition reflects an understanding of e-business that encompasses more than e-commerce transactions. The broad concept of e-business also includes the digitisation of internal business processes, as well as cooperative or collaborative processes between companies which are not necessarily transaction-focused. Collaborative design processes between business partners are a typical example from industrial engineering. The definition implicitly indicates that the focus and main objective of e-business is to be found in business process automation and integration, and the impacts thereof. To bridge the gap between 'e-Commerce' and 'e-Business' the role of ICT for cooperation among enterprises is stressed. If transactions are conducted electronically ('e-transactions'), this constitutes e-Commerce. Multiple systems and tools are in use for exchange of product data within and across enterprises in the fields of CAD, CAM, PDM, FEM etc. All export their own formats and import in other systems is not possible. For CAD data exchange ISO 10303 STEP protocol and confirmation classes are established, but currently are not supported by most of the IT systems which in practice are used in shipbuilding. Therefore ISO STEP confirmation classes in practice are hardly used. The introduction of a one and monolithic CAD system would not solve the problem, as it would only solve part of the problem and because specialised, highly adapted tools for specific tasks are needed and superior to more general tools. |
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