The agility to exploit new business opportunities is key to success for an enterprise to keep its competitiveness. The information technology advances, such as the Internet, allow enterprises to work together effectively even if they are geographically separated. These technologies facilitate new forms of cooperation, like Virtual Enterprises. This paper describes the VISHOF, Virtual Shop Floor system, that enables enterprises to share their shop floor resources to form Virtual Enterprises. This system is a piece of software for which access and operation is made via the Internet with a browser.
virtual enterprise; Internet; core competence
