Abstract
The progress of the information technology accelerates the globally connection of the manufacturing systems, and it also generates the new type production style which is assisted by the collaboration of the core competence of each companies. In this paper, the availability of a Very Small Aperture Terminal (VSAT) satellite communication system is required as one of the network technology to realize the decentralized manufacturing project. The result of experiment, which uses the VSAT satellite communication system, shows the simple linearity between the number of communications and the total delay times for communications. According to this and the other experimental result, the feasibility of the decentralized manufacturing project which is connected by the VSAT satellite communication system is shown.
