Today's complex manufacturing systems operate in a changing environment rife with uncertainty. The performance of manufacturing companies ultimately hinges on their ability to rapidly adapt production to current internal and external circumstances. Partly based on a running national research project on digital enterprises and production networks, the paper illustrates how the concepts of intelligent manufacturing systems and digital enterprises can contribute to the solution of the above problems.
['László Monostori', 'József Váncza', 'A. Márkus', 'Botond Kádár', 'Zsolt János Viharos']
Digital enterprises: first results of a national R&D project