Resumen
This article describes various aspects related to an industrial virtual enterprise. An industrial virtual enterprise is a temporary consortium of independent member companies coming together to quickly exploit fast-changing worldwide product manufacturing opportunities. Industrial virtual enterprise assemble themselves based on cost-effectiveness and product uniqueness without regard for organization sizes, geographic locations, computing environments, technologies deployed, or processes implemented. virtual enterprise companies share costs, skills, and core competencies that collectively enable them to access global markets with world-class solutions their members could not deliver individually. High performance computer networks allows companies to collaborate electronically. The U.S.-based National Industrial Information Infrastructure protocols (NIIIP) consortium is one such team of organizations cooperating with the U.S. government to develop open industry software protocols allowing manufacturers and their suppliers to interoperate.