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An Exciting New Initiative
The jMobile initiative is brought to you by Exor International, a leader in automation control systems, with significant expertise in advanced human-machine interface (HMI) technologies and applications for industrial and marine environments. Exor International was founded in 1994.
The jMobile initiative is at the forefront of mobile, configurable HMI solutions. We use a system-level approach that integrates automation control, graphical information and tools, security, storage, and wireless communication technologies.
Exor International strives to meet the demands of OEMs, system integrators, and consumers for high quality, environmentally sound, competitively priced products. Its strategy is to serve as a corporate investor and coordinating body for technology development across an alliance of agile expert companies around the world. These companies work together to develop, sell, and support automation control systems and modular embedded hardware and software solutions. They also work on broader initiatives -- such as the jMobile initiative -- that bring together intellectual property and know-how from across the alliance.
Exor International leverages the Internet to build an efficient infrastructure which enables alliance companies to work as a virtual corporation that is flexible and adaptable for rapid market response. Thus, the jMobile initiative is not a single company, but several different organizations collaborating within Exor International – companies that contribute know-how and resources for software development, business development, licensing, and customer support. We also drive an open source community for new project development.
The jMobile initiative is brought to you by Exor International, a leader in automation control systems, with significant expertise in advanced human-machine interface (HMI) technologies and applications for industrial and marine environments. Exor International was founded in 1994.
The jMobile initiative is at the forefront of mobile, configurable HMI solutions. We use a system-level approach that integrates automation control, graphical information and tools, security, storage, and wireless communication technologies.
Exor International strives to meet the demands of OEMs, system integrators, and consumers for high quality, environmentally sound, competitively priced products. Its strategy is to serve as a corporate investor and coordinating body for technology development across an alliance of agile expert companies around the world. These companies work together to develop, sell, and support automation control systems and modular embedded hardware and software solutions. They also work on broader initiatives -- such as the jMobile initiative -- that bring together intellectual property and know-how from across the alliance.
Exor International leverages the Internet to build an efficient infrastructure which enables alliance companies to work as a virtual corporation that is flexible and adaptable for rapid market response. Thus, the jMobile initiative is not a single company, but several different organizations collaborating within Exor International – companies that contribute know-how and resources for software development, business development, licensing, and customer support. We also drive an open source community for new project development.
A New Organizational Approach
In today's marketplace it is difficult for traditional organizations with rigid hierarchical structures to be flexible, agile, and adaptable in order to take advantage of opportunities or be efficient in using resources. Exor International believes a new type of organization is needed, based on the idea of a ‘holon’ (for an explanation of the term, please see the section and references below).
Exor International operates as a holonic system. Instead of managing a large, monolithic structure that covers the entire value chain, Exor International directs a strategy to:
- build an alliance of autonomous companies that coordinate as a virtual worldwide enterprise based on a holonic and web-oriented organization model
- offer a complete range of embedded factory automation products and embedded systems based on a core foundation of functional building blocks
- provide competitively priced services and logistical support
- develop a recognized global brand presence to support the autonomous companies
Defining Holon
Ken Wilber (1996) notes that if one looks closely "at the things and processes that actually exist, it soon becomes obvious that they are not merely wholes, they are also parts of something else. They are whole/parts, they are holons".
Koestler (1990) proposes that a stable organization has a certain hierarchical order based on a structure of stable, intermediary structures that can be found at various levels throughout the organization. He describes the intermediary structures as self-contained wholes that are simultaneously dependant parts within a larger system. He uses the term ‘holon’ to describe a self-contained intermediate form that operates purposefully in what is known as a ‘holarchy,’ or an assembly of holons. Koestler offers the example of one watchmaker who builds watches (holarchies) from sub-assemblies (holons), and another watchmaker who builds watches from separate parts. If each drops a watch during manufacturing, the watchmaker using the sub-assemblies faces a far easier task to put the watch together again than the watchmaker with only individual component parts – in fact the whole manufacturing process, and likely the end product as well, is more stable.
References:
Koestler, A. (1990). The Ghost in the Machine. London: Arkana.
Wilber, K. (1996). A Brief History of Everything. Boston: Shambhala
Wilber, K. (1996). A Brief History of Everything. Boston: Shambhala