Capability for Networking and Integrating PART II

Capability for Networking and Integrating PART II

Today, system integration is becoming increasingly sophisticated and no single organization can claim to monopolize the capabilities of system integration in a single project. Each subsector has its own profile of the supplier and user organization, all involved in system integration. For example, in the American defence system that shows, various organizations share the overall task of system integration. They include prime contractors and major subcontractors who build weapons systems, nonprofit technical advisors (including university groups), specialist government labs, and organizations that manage arms acquisition (e.g., the Department of Defense) as well as military weapons users. (For example, the army or navy). Typically, these organizations are involved in the development and integration of systems at the level of large technical systems (e.g., integrated weapon systems) and product systems that support larger systems. The collaborative network continues to grow in a number of embodiments including not only virtual organizations and virtual enterprises, but also dynamic supply chains, professional virtual communities, collaborative virtual laboratories, a global research, and global cooperative education with a broad spectrum of application domains. The realization that all these forms of collaboration represent a general paradigm variation has led to their consolidation into Collaborative Networks Organizations (CNO) as a new scientific paradigm (Camarinha-Matos, et al. 2005). A European project called ECOLEAD – The European Collaborative Network Organization Leadership Initiative (www.ecolead.org) has been undertaken to create the foundations and mechanisms necessary to build an advanced network-based and collaborative industrial society in Europe. ECO LED addresses the three most fundamental and interrelated focus areas as the basis for a dynamic and sustainable networking organization.

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