FRAMEWORK OF SHOP-FLOOR CONTROLLER SUPPORTING AGILE VIRTUAL ENTERPRISES

With the change of the world-wide market competition, the agile virtual enterprise (AVE) will become the new organization form of manufacturing enterprises. The shop-floor controller is required to support collaboration enterprises. Based on the analysis of the information flow in shop-floor, the framework of the shop-floor controller which support agile virtual enterprises is presented by using internet technology, distributed workflow and agent technology.