Technology for the United States Navy and Marine Corps, 2000-2035: Becoming a 21st-Century Force Volume 2: Technology (1997) / Chapter Skim
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10 TECHNOLOGIES FOR ENTERPRISE PROCESSES
10 TECHNOLOGIES FOR ENTERPRISE PROCESSES
Pages 300-313
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Building the capabilities necessary to meet Navy and Marine Corps requirements demands highly specialized analyses and understanding and the integration of multiple disciplines into a set of enterprise processes that will extend across the entire spectrum of naval activities. The panel has identified categories of Navy Department activity as being particularly amenable to the application of information and management technol 300
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SBA comprises an advanced scalable architecture, an integrated product database that includes product attributes; an interactive, immersive synthetic environment; integrated collaboration tools; analysis and modeling tools packaged with standard, interoperable interfaces; smart agents to assist in information collection and integration; and advanced product and process-optimization tools. Relevance to the Naval Forces SBA allows decisionmakers the unprecedented ability to examine design and operational issues for proposed systems by interacting with the virtual prototype of the product.
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Users can avoid large monolithic and unmanageable data storage approaches, and their attendant problems, through the use of agile distributed and modular information management solutions. The SPM product provides users with standard base classes that are usable by any selected instance.
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The SPM's distributed heterogeneous architecture allows users to create logical groupings of information germane to a specific analysis task without recompiling or relinking tools or databases. These capabilities allow companies to form virtual enterprises and share design information without having to redo their internal data-management approaches.
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A SBD system is configured for a specific product application, linking copies of the SBD core-processing system together with applicationspecific software tools selected for the particular functions being addressed. Engineers are able to quickly generate a virtual prototype for an initial conceptual design to validate feasibility and provide a basis for cost estimation by reusing data from previous systems and by importing data from external sources.
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This design gives tools the ability to access any public data in the product model via standard procedures without needing to consider the physical or logical location of the data. The primary technology areas involved in SBA and SBD are multidisciplinary analysis and optimization, advanced modeling and simulation, data visualization and interaction technologies, collaboration technologies, software interface and standards technologies, and advanced computing technologies.
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has been explicitly designed to produce virtual prototypes that can be placed in synthetic worlds and interact with other objects in these worlds. Leveraging these commercial developments and Navy development focused on integration and mission dependent software will enable rapid advances in overall SBA capability.
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Lean manufacturing eliminates unnecessary inventory and product defects and minimizes the use of resources. Agile commerce is a new paradigm that encompasses and enhances the above strategies and reflects the ability to quickly adapt in a continuously changing requirements environment and to link those requirements to industrial suppliers and their manufacturing capabilities.
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Agile commerce is envisioned to provide to the United States an integrated industrial base equipped to rapidly respond with highly customized solutions to customer requirements of any magnitude, thus reinstating the United States as the world leader in manufacturing. Relevance to the Naval Forces With increasing reliance on commercial development and suppliers, agile commerce will enable the Navy Department to accomplish the following: Rapidly respond to changing requirements; Optimize the use of human and machine resources; Form virtual enterprises with suppliers for efficient acquisition; and · Perform customization of high-quality products at competitive prices.
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is the near-real-time ability to plan, execute, monitor, and replan the availability of people, equipment, units, and supplies to support mission operations. To facilitate the complex interactions required for successful multidisciplinary coordination, all elements in the logistics chain should have access to the most current information related to the supplies and operations under consideration.
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Technology Status, Trends, and Developments The United States is currently on the leading edge of an explosion in information-management technology that is making possible revolutionary improvements in RTLM. Among the most important technologies relevant to logistics management are autonomous smart agents for information collection and integration; interactive, integrated simulation; and process optimization.
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Relevance to the Naval Forces Dynamic mission planning will create a virtual battle space that will allow the Navy and Marine Corps to visually interact with all elements of a selected scenario. It will contain multiple levels of fidelity and enable operators to rapidly develop and evaluate multiple options.
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Relevance to the Naval Forces The naval forces operate in a highly complex environment that contains many system components that change dynamically. Each of the Navy and Marine Corps platforms or weapon systems has the potential to be more effective in its mission objectives if it is interconnected with complementary systems in an appropriate manner.
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TECHNOLOGIES FOR ENTERPRISE PROCESSES RECOMMENDATION 313 Large-scale processes within the Department of the Navy, such as platform acquisition, logistics management, resource planning, mission planning, and personnel management, are major cost drivers of naval operations. Information technologies are becoming available that can revolutionize the execution of these enterprise processes with a resultant substantial reduction in manpower, cycle time, risk, and cost.
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