Workflow-based information system for furniture budgeting

Author

Vidal, J.C. ; Lama, M. ; Bugarin, A. ; Barro, S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Sci., Santiago de Compostela Univ., Spain

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

16-19 Sept. 2003

Firstpage

54

Abstract

This work describes the design and implementation of a knowledge based system that automatizes the furniture budgeting task. The aim of this task is to estimate the production cost that would suppose a furniture order manufacturing. Fulfillment of this aim requires the management of the company resources, information and knowledge in order to determine workload and financial impacts of client request manufacturing. Task modelling has been done through the workflows formalism approach and describes working activities and its relationships with the company resources. The system software architecture is based on workflow modeling and is an adjustment of a conceptual architecture proposed to be a standard for workflows systems.

Keywords

budgeting data processing; costing; furniture industry; information management; knowledge based systems; knowledge management; software architecture; workflow management software; company resources management; financial impacts; furniture budgeting task; furniture manufacturing; furnitures production; information management; knowledge based system design; knowledge based system implementation; knowledge management; production cost estimation; software architecture; task modelling; workflow based information system; workload determination; Computer architecture; Costs; Financial management; Information systems; Knowledge based systems; Knowledge management; Management information systems; Manufacturing; Production; Resource management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, 2003. Proceedings. ETFA '03. IEEE Conference

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7937-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ETFA.2003.1247687

Filename

1247687