An infrastructure for integrated document management

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dc.contributor.authorChadha, Mandhiren
dc.contributor.committeechairSarin, Subhash C.en
dc.contributor.committeememberReasor, Roderick J.en
dc.contributor.committeememberKline, D. Earlen
dc.contributor.departmentIndustrial and Systems Engineeringen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T21:47:56Zen
dc.date.adate2009-10-22en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T21:47:56Zen
dc.date.issued1995-01-06en
dc.date.rdate2009-10-22en
dc.date.sdate2009-10-22en
dc.description.abstractIn any industrial environment, information flow and control can greatly influence the efficiency of the enterprise. While the technology to create and transfer these electronic documents has been developed, little has been done towards the management of these functions. Advanced networks and file manager systems allow distributed access and control but fail to provide a measure of discipline of how these documents should be categorized and manipulated. No matter what the level of technology involved, in order to truly integrate an enterprise, all documentation and information flow must be controlled and monitored. Existing document control systems are either customized for a particular industry or are too proprietary for common use. A generic and flexible document management system would not only be useful in the manufacturing function of the enterprise but would also help integrate it with the business function on a macro level. Such a system should also allow users to exchange data with other users in a simple manner. This would help promote the integration of engineering teams as complete workgroups would be able to share data and information in an integrated fashion. In some cases, where a high degree of automation is required and possible, several intelligent applications should be able to share and transfer data autonomously without the intervention of human operators. Further, since the philosophy of information control is not limited to the bounds of the manufacturing realm, the same system could be used in a non-manufacturing environment as well. This projects presents a flexible and modular infrastructure to allow distributed information sharing and application integration. A software system, built for the Windows environment on PC’s is provided to demonstrate the utility and capabilities of this infrastructure. A prototype autonomous module has also been included in this work to demonstrate the ability to plug in and integrate similar independent software applications under the developed software system. This prototype provides a template for future development of similar applications based on the developed infrastructure and software system. The software system uses shared directories to achieve distributed data management.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Scienceen
dc.format.extentx, 145 leavesen
dc.format.mediumBTDen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.otheretd-10222009-124912en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10222009-124912/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/45232en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartLD5655.V851_1995.C433.pdfen
dc.relation.isformatofOCLC# 32883949en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectinformation flowen
dc.subject.lccLD5655.V851 1995.C433en
dc.titleAn infrastructure for integrated document managementen
dc.typeMaster's projecten
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
thesis.degree.disciplineIndustrial and Systems Engineeringen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Scienceen

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