www. kokanduni.uz real VCs) pushes semi-finished products on their own - from start to finish. Dispensation is
required only in case of force majeure (the car broke down, the electricity turned off, etc.).
Exceptional situations of the operational level (for example, find the goods in the warehouse
was not found) are also standardized and processed automatically by the system.
The regular conveyor has three weak points.
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territorial - can work only locally, in the perimeter of this production site
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functional - applicable only to tangible goods
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lack of flexibility (rigidity) - unfinished goods move along a tightly fixed path, and
only in one direction.
Thus, any contingency situation requires either to stop the conveyor at all, or to remove
semi-finished products from it for subsequent manual processing. Changeover (for example,
to change the type of output products) is a very expensive process. The set of restrictions
leads to the fact, that the classic conveyor is cost-effective only in large-scale (mass)
production of tangible goods. Virtual conveyors of the IEM operating system are free from all
the limitations of a mechanical predecessor. They guarantee the conveyor order in business
operations of any type, while the physical executors of neighboring parts of the value chain
can work on different continents. A virtual conveyor can have any level of variety of
connections between the stages of the VC. For example, not only a unidirectional chain
(vector), as Ford had, but also cycling rings with retrograde motion (for example, successive
“test
-return to
revision” cycles). For some types of "products" (of any kind
- including
intangible services), some stages may be excluded. Other types of products may fall onto the
conveyor from the middle. The number of simultaneously “product” variants, advancing alon
g
the conveyors, is unlimited - while the system guarantees the use of adequate business logic
for each “product”. There can be a lot of virtual conveyors themselves for each assortment
group, down to a single “product”. At the same time, a digital enterpr
ise can simultaneously
manage a large number of VCs of any complexity level. Thus, an enterprise, equipped with an
IEM system, receives a sequencing tool, that combines all the advantages of mass and small-
scale production without their significant disadvantages. Value chains, intersecting in a
business management center, have cyber symmetry in the living world in the form of multi-
agent systems.