Manufacturers are already incorporatingsupport for Internet manufacturing.Solutions range from software fordetermining customer purchasingneeds to monitoring and controllingproduction from remote locations.“The advent of the Internet has foreverchanged the structure of the supplychain … Today, the Internet enablesseveral suppliers to chime in on anorder, allowing them to compete for acontract in cyberspace” (Haren, 2000).Implementation of an e-supply chainrequires full integration of supplycomponents with Internet componentsaccording to Haren (2000). Haren’ssoftware company, ILOG, providessoftware solutions that include webbasedpurchasing and support for theInternet human interface.
The US-Japan Center at VanderbiltUniversity has created a VirtualManufacturing Village (VMV) consistingof researchers and practitionerswho develop manufacturing conceptsin an on-line community. Some of theareas they have focused on are intelligentmanufacturing, environmentallyconscious design and manufacturing,and remote manufacturing systems.
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