Marco Teórico de las Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación en las Redes Virtuales de Fabricación Global

Published in: Innovation and Development for the Americas: Engineering, Education, Research and Development: Proceedings of the 8th Latin American and Caribbean Conference for Engineering and Technology
Date of Conference: June 1-4, 2010
Location of Conference: Arequipa, Peru
Authors: Carlos Rodríguez Monroy
José Ramón Vilana Arto
Refereed Paper: #44

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to design a map of needs of Information and Comunications Technologies (ICTs) in Global Manufacturing Virtual Networks (GMVNs). These organizations are constantly changing dynamic systems where horizontal and vertical relationships are established between independent enterprises, or even competitors, where it is not necessary to maintain large internal manufacturing resources but efficiently manage and share network resources. ICTs play a key role in the efficiency of the management and coordination of GMVNs, although its implementation is complicated due to the need to overcome the emotional barriers of integrating ICTs between competing firms. In recent years, Internet growth has solved some of these difficulties by allowing implementing some technologies such as collaborative manufacturing or manufacturing grids that in some sectors are increasingly being implemented like computing, astronomy, or bioinformatics. However, actually there is not any implemented model that considers horizontal relationships between firms, especially competitors, and contemplates its fundamental factors for the harmonization of these networks such as cultural mechanisms or systemic strategy in the network.