Cyber-Physical Systems in an Enterprise Context: From Enterprise Model to System Configuration
Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) can provide for significant benefits in different areas of human activities. However, the existing gap between methods, modelling approaches and viewpoints of the disciplines involved into CPS development creates significant d
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SPIIRAS, 14 Line 39, 199178 Saint Petersburg, Russia {smir,nick}@iias.spb.su 2 University of Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Street 22, 18059 Rostock, Germany [email protected] 3 ITMO University, Kronverkskiy pr. 49, 197101 Saint Petersburg, Russia 4 School of Engineering, Jönköping University, 55111 Jönköping, Sweden
Abstract. Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) can provide for significant benefits in different areas of human activities. However, the existing gap between methods, modelling approaches and viewpoints of the disciplines involved into CPS development creates significant difficulties for creating viable CPS solutions. In this paper we are trying to bridge this gap via linking business model and system design and configuration disciplines. It is investigated how a business model captured in an enterprise model can be used for configuring a CPS which is part of implementing the business model. The results are illustrated on an example from the transportation industry. Keywords: Cyber-Physical Systems Self-organization Self-contextualization Context variation
1 Introduction The benefits and innovation potential attributed to Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) is enormous. CPS are considered as key elements of the next industrial revolution and the key to higher efficiency and flexibility in many industrial domains [1]. From a technical perspective CPS tightly integrate physical and IT (cyber) worlds based on interactions between these worlds in real time [2]. Such systems rely on communication, computation and control infrastructures commonly consisting of several levels for the two worlds with various resources as sensors, actuators, computational resources, services, humans, etc. From a business perspective CPS can contribute to product innovation (see [3] for an example from health industries), process innovation (see [4] for an example from manufacturing) or business model innovation (see [5]). In this paper, the focus is on business model innovation based on CPS, i.e. we consider a situation where a CPS forms the basis for new customer services of an enterprise. These customer services need to be defined including the processes for implementing them, the roles involved in the enterprise, resources required and the way the CPS is used for delivering the customer services. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 W. Abramowicz (Ed.): BIS 2015 Workshops, LNBIP 228, pp. 148–159, 2015. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-26762-3_14
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A challenge frequently experienced in the development of CPS is the gap between methods, modelling approaches and viewpoints of the involved disciplines. In order to create viable CPS solutions from a business and a technical perspectives, stakeholders from different enterprise functions should be involved, including marketing, controlling, operations management, system design and human resource management, as the business services and products depending on the CPS will have to be integrated in the enterprise’s business processes, need
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