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Participants of ISO TC184/SC 5/WG 1 will present a series of papers that address the group’s work and our thoughts on the direction we feel appropriate for the establishment of new international standards in manufacturing automation. The focus of WG1 is on architecture and modelling aspects in support of the automation standards objectives of TC184. This paper sets the stage, so to speak, upon which current and future group efforts will play out.

World-wide collaboration and co-operation of enterprises of all sizes increases the need for standards supporting operational interoperability in the global environment. Such standards are concerned with the communication aspects of information and communication technology (ICT), like communication protocols as well as the syntax and semantics of the communication content. Communicating parties have to have the same understanding of the meaning of the exchanged information and trust both the communication itself and the validity of its content. Focus of the paper is on business process modelling and its standardisation in the area of enterprise inter- and intra-organisational integration. Relations to the subject of interoperability are discussed.

Standards have been developed and are still developing for enterprise modelling frameworks and modelling constructs. Recently they have made increasing although informal use of UML to metamodel and hence to clarify the concepts involved. However, the relationships between those concepts (for example, positioning the modelling constructs within a framework) have not been defined to the degree of precision required. This paper describes an approach as a work-in-progress, which proposes to use metamodelling to ground the concepts within the framework, and so to resolve difficult issues such as federated views on an enterprise model. In the longer term it should also provide benefits through alignment with Object Management Group (OMG) developments, especially the Model Driven Architecture, MDA™.

This paper describes an implementation of the Integrated Process Management System, which includes manufacturing process management for building parts, and also construction process management at construction site. To observe the flow of the building parts, RFIDs are stuck to all parts to be managed, and several checkpoints, which we named “gates”, are introduced within the coherent process through part-manufacturing and building construction. The requirements of the RFID directory services are also discussed.

Enterprise Modelling has been repeatedly proposed as a way to share knowledge within and among companies. However, industry practitioners —especially in Small and Medium Enterprises — are slow to take up this practice, and models are usually only built to support the development of application programs, databases or other information technology artefacts, rather then for the broader purpose of knowledge sharing.

The article examines knowledge categories previously proposed in the literature and proposes an extension of previous work in order to better understand the nature of knowledge sharing processes and the role of models in these.

This paper aims at presenting an overview of a European Integrated Project ATHENA to develop interoperability of enterprise applications and software. The first part of the paper tentatively maps the expected ATHENA solution components to ISO 15704 which is an important standard in the area of enterprise integration. This mapping allows categorising expected ATHENA research results according to ISO 15704 and evaluating the consistency and completeness of ATHENA solutions with respect to the ISO 15704 framework. The second part of the paper focuses on one solution component: enterprise modelling language. Possible use of UEML vl.0 in ATHENA Al project and related work to develop UEML 2.0 in INTEROP NoE will be discussed. Conclusions are given at the end of the paper.

This paper presents a number of principles related to the construction and use of enterprise architecture frameworks. These principles are intended to guide the development of a formal foundation for frameworks but also serve as guidance for efforts to enable the interoperability of enterprise models and model components. The principles are drawn from analyses of a number of existing frameworks and from observation of and participation in framework development.

This paper presents a further step towards a UEML (Unified Enterprise Modelling Language) starting from the result of the UEML project, funded by the European Commission under the IST-V Framework Programme of Research. Specifically, the paper provides the basic theories and thinking underlying the project work as well as current improvements based on a data-integration perspective.

The article defines adaptability as the main target to solve the problem of enterprise architecture sustainability. Flexibility is an important steering mechanism to develop adaptability. Organisational modularisation is used to flexibilise enterprise structures. Business processes are changing permanently according to business requirements. Unfortunately it is a matter of fact that IT is disabling this business-driven change. Integration Technology is being introduced to improve the situation. Establishing step by step a multi service integration architecture creates new issues as handling internal charging routines, service monitoring and service life cycle management. The CC for EAI at Technical University is working on an approach and prototype of a service management module adressing the mentioned issues.

Presently, there is a great need for methodologies and reference models to assist and guide the creation and operation of various types of Collaborative Networked Organisations (CNO). The efforts to fulfil this need can be greatly assisted by a msta-methodology integrating diverse CNO creation and operation knowledge. This paper continues previous research on the concept, requirements, design, verification and potential implementations of a CNO life cycle meta-methodology, by describing an additional case study and subsequent reflections leading to the refinement and extension of the proposed meta-methodology.