AEEF: A knowledge-based framework for apparel enterprise evaluation

摘要

The practice of subcontracting some or all the operations involved in manufacturing products is prevalent in many industries. The buying organization typically receives bids from several companies offering to carry out these operations. The process of determining whether a manufacturing facility is capable of producing the required quantity of the commodity at the right time and of the specified quality is fairly complex and involved. In this research, a knowledge-based approach has been adopted to identify the major factors that affect the capability of an apparel manufacturing enterprise to perform on a contract. This knowledge-based framework, known as Apparel Enterprise Evaluation Framework (AEEF), has been developed. In this article, we present the acquisition and representation of the knowledge in a structural hierarchical framework. The article also outlines the selection of the inference mechanism and the decomposition of the high-level abstract enterprise capabilities into low-level observable factors.