Open Hypermedia for Product Support
Open Hypermedia for Product Support
As industrial systems become increasingly more complex, the maintenance and operating information increases both in volume and complexity. With the current pressures on manufacturing, the management of information resources has become a critical issue. In particular ensuring that personnel can access current information quickly and effectively when undertaking a specific task. This paper discusses some of the issues involved in, and the benefits of using, open hypermedia to manage and deliver a diverse range of information. While the paper concentrates on the problems specifically associated with manufacturing organisations, the problems are generic across other business sectors, such as healthcare, defence and finance. The open hypermedia approach to information management and delivery allows a multimedia resource base to be used for a range of applications, and permits a user to have controlled access to the required information, in an easily accessible and structured manner. Recent advancement in hypermedia also permits just-in-time support in the most appropriate format for all users. Our approach is illustrated by the discussion of a case study in which an open hypermedia system delivers maintenance and process information to factory floor users, to support the maintenance and operation of a very large manufacturing cell.
Industrial strength hypermedia, knowledge management, information systems.
421-432
Wills, Gary
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Sim, Yee-Wai
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Crowder, Richard
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Hall, Wendy
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2002
Wills, Gary
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Sim, Yee-Wai
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Wills, Gary, Sim, Yee-Wai, Crowder, Richard and Hall, Wendy
(2002)
Open Hypermedia for Product Support.
International Journal of Systems Science, 33 (6), .
Abstract
As industrial systems become increasingly more complex, the maintenance and operating information increases both in volume and complexity. With the current pressures on manufacturing, the management of information resources has become a critical issue. In particular ensuring that personnel can access current information quickly and effectively when undertaking a specific task. This paper discusses some of the issues involved in, and the benefits of using, open hypermedia to manage and deliver a diverse range of information. While the paper concentrates on the problems specifically associated with manufacturing organisations, the problems are generic across other business sectors, such as healthcare, defence and finance. The open hypermedia approach to information management and delivery allows a multimedia resource base to be used for a range of applications, and permits a user to have controlled access to the required information, in an easily accessible and structured manner. Recent advancement in hypermedia also permits just-in-time support in the most appropriate format for all users. Our approach is illustrated by the discussion of a case study in which an open hypermedia system delivers maintenance and process information to factory floor users, to support the maintenance and operation of a very large manufacturing cell.
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Published date: 2002
Keywords:
Industrial strength hypermedia, knowledge management, information systems.
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Agents, Interactions & Complexity, Electronic & Software Systems
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/256718
ISSN: 0020-7721
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Gary Wills
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