About the Order Fulfillment Stage of the Manufacturing System Part 1

Abstract

Competitiveness fully and synthetically characterizes the viability of an enterprise. In the economics literature competitiveness is analyzed in particular in economic and managerial terms with almost no insight into the analysis of the technology role in ensuring and developing competitiveness. Hence the need for manufacturing systems based on behaviour modelling and on line learning. The behavioural approach is based on a continuous awareness of the situations and decisions in real time on activities. Thus it can provide solutions to make manufacturing systems develop and be competitive. From theories of knowledge and complexity, we can design a flexible system that will lead to manufacturing processes, flexibly responding to any environmental demand. The behavioural management is characterized by the ability to perceive the environment, to take decision in time, as a result of interaction, with no specific procedures. The system environment provides on-line data on the actions undertaken which, properly analyzed and correlated, will further generate solutions in order to develop said system and make it competitive. The paper aims, in the field of manufacturing technologies, at approaching issues of manufacturing systems, in order to develop a new concept of management, which is in line with the current market dynamics: the concept of competitive management. The concept of competitive management can offer solutions even to make competitive and develop enterprises as a whole. However, improving competitiveness is not a short-term process of exploiting advantages, but appears as a complex process of establishing and sustaining an economic structure based on capital investment, on research and knowledge, on development and innovation.