Product Oriented Modelling and Interoperability Issues
The consideration of Product information or Knowledge management, product traceability or genealogy, and product life cycle management implies new strategies and approaches to manage flows of information that relate to flows of material managed in shop fl
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CRAN (UMR 7039), University Henry Poincaré Nancy I F 54506 Vandoeuvre les Nancy, France [email protected], [email protected] 2 LORIA (UMR 7503), Campus scientifique, BP 239 F 54506 Vandoeuvre les Nancy, France [email protected]
Abstract. The consideration of Product information or Knowledge management, product traceability or genealogy, and product life cycle management implies new strategies and approaches to manage flows of information that relate to flows of material managed in shop floor level. Moreover, throughout product lifecycle coordination needs to be established between reality in the physical world (physical view) and the virtual world handled by manufacturing information systems (informational view). This paper presents a product oriented modelling and a product oriented interoperability approach based on the use of the “Holon” modelling concept as a means for the synchronisation of both physical view and informational views. The Zachman framework is afterwards used as a guideline to establish product oriented interoperability between enterprise systems. Keywords: Process Modelling, Manufacturing Systems, Enterprise Integration, Systems Interoperability, Model Driven Architecture, Zachman, Models Transformations and Mappings.
1 Introduction Enterprise integration and the opening of information systems towards integrated access have been the main motivation for the interest around systems interoperability. Integration aspect and information sharing in the enterprise lead to an organisation of the hierarchy of enterprises applications where interoperability is a key issue (see Fig. 1). This hierarchy defines the three main levels in manufacturing enterprises:
− L1: Process control level contains all processes that perform routing and physical transformations on the produced goods and services;
− L2: The Execution level performs the processes that manage decision flows (e.g.: Workflow systems) and production flows (e.g.: MES1, SCE2); 1 2
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− L3: The management system level is responsible for the management of processes that handle all different informational aspects related to the enterprise (e.g.: APS3, ERP4 or CRM5 systems).
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Fig. 1. Manufacturing enterprises common structure
To meet traceability, product genealogy and product life cycle management needs, nowadays an enterprise has to manage flows of information that relate to flows of material and that are managed in shop floor level. We assume that the enterprise is composed of two separated worlds (see Fig. 2): (i) On one hand, a world in which the product is mainly seen as a physical object, this world is called the manufacturing world. It handles systems that are tightly related to the sh
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