Dynamic organization and methodology for agile virtual enterprises

With the trend of the worldwide market competition, the globalagile manufacturing will become an advanced manufacturing technology in 21st century, and the Agile Virtual Enterprise (AVE) will also become a new organizationform of manufacturing enterprises. As AVE is a complicated enierprise, how tobuild an optimal AVE organization is a difficult problem. In this paper, based onthe analysis of the AVE organization, the methodology for AVE including enterprisearchitecture, reference model, enterprise modeling methods and toolkit, guideline forsystem implementation is proposed. This paper also presents a Virtual Organization Integrated Support Environment (VOISE), which provides the computer-aidedsupport for rapidly building an optimal AVE.