...Steven R. Ray The growth in the use of the Internet brings with it an increase in the number of interconnections among information systems supporting the manufacturing supply chain as well as other businesses. Each of these interconnections must be carefully prescribed to ensure interoperability...

...Daniel Svensson; Johan Malmqvist Product structure management (PSM) is a process that affects many of the activity domains 1 . (AD) in a company. Different ADs have different requirements for the decomposition of a product structure and the function of the information systems (IS) used. Departments...

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