A China-Europe international workshop on INTEROP was convened on July 25, 2005 in Beijing. More than 30 participants from Europe and China attended the workshop, co-sponsored by an expert panel for the integrated modern manufacturing system under the National 863 Program, a high-tech research and development center, part of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and EU?痵 INTEROP-NoE.
INTEROP, a large project financed by the EU?痵 6th Framework Program, has attracted the participation of some 170 experts, scholars and doctorate students from over 50 institutions in 15 countries. It works on interoperability for enterprise software and applications, and strives to establish a European excellence network in technical fields concerned. European experts briefed the audiences of the INTEROP?痵 general framework, roadmap, and enterprise scale, structures, and platforms suitable for interoperability. They also discussed special issues concerning the applications in small and medium-sized enterprises. Chinese experts talked about the development status and thinking lines of CIMS under the National 863 Program, and other related issues, including enterprise scale, workflow management, industrial software and integrated applications, EAI system and platform, knowledge management for products development, and applications in aeronautics industry.
The workshop makes an in-depth follow-up to the visit of an INTEROP delegation to China last April. In the two-day event, seven European representatives, including Arian ZWEGERS of the EU?痵 ICT for Enterprise Networking, applauded for the accomplishments made by their Chinese colleagues in the field, and expressed their confidence in staging more cooperation in the field of manufacturing information process. |
