Contents -- Abstracts & keywords -- Guest editorial -- E-commerce in production -- Applying digital manufacturing technology to ship production and the maritime environment -- ASP-driven e-service platform for Web-based online manufacturing -- A survey and implementation framework for industrial-oriented Web-Based applications -- Design agility and manufacturing responsiveness on the Web -- The Internet-based virtual machining system using CORBA -- Web-based simulation portal for investigating impacts of sharing production information on supply chain dynamics from the perspective of inventory allocation.