CIMOSA: Open System Architecture for CIM: 1 (Research Reports Esprit, 1) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3540562567 ISBN 13: 9783540562566

Publisher: Springer, 1993

Synopsis

Enterprise operation efficiency is seriously constrained by the inability to provide the right information, in the right place, at the right time. In spite of significant advances in technology it is still difficult to access information used or produced by different applications due to the hardware and software incompatibilities of manufacturing and information processing equipment. But it is this information and operational knowledge which makes up most of the business value of the enterprise and which enables it to compete in the marketplace. Therefore, sufficient and timely information access is a prerequisite for its efficient use in the operation of enterprises. It is the aim of the ESPRIT project AMICE to make this knowledge base available enterprise-wide. During several ESPRIT contracts the project has developed and validated CIMOSA: Open System Architecture for CIM. The CIMOSA concepts provide operation structuring based on cooperating processes. Enterprise operations are represented in terms of functionality and dynamic behaviour (control flow). Information needed and produced, as well as resources and organisational aspects relevant in the course of the operation are modelled in the process model. However, the different aspects may be viewed separately for additional structuring and detailing during the enterprise engineering process.

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Cimosa This ESPRIT research report describes work on an Open System Architecture for Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIMOSA) that provides a new approach for enterprise modelling. In the second edition, the book significantly extends the specification of CIMOSA in several ways.

Synopsis

The efficiency of enterprise operation is seriouslyconstrained by the inability to provide the rightinformation, in the right place, at the righttime. It isstill difficult to access information used or produced bydifferent applications, due to the hardware and softwareincompatibilities of manufacturing and informationprocessing equipment. It is the aim of the ESPRIT projectAMICE (European Computer Integrated ManufacturingArchitecture) to make the enterprise knowledge baseavailable enterprise-wide. This book reports work carried out in the framework of theESPRIT project AMICE on CIMOSA (Open System Architecture forComputer Integrated Manufacturing). CIMOSA provides a newapproach for enterprise modelling. It is based on areference architecture for common and consistent enterprisedescription, a system lifecycle definition focusing onmodel maintenance and update rather than model creation, andan integrating infrastructure for model engineering andexecution that enables enterprise operation control andmonitoring in heterogeneous environments. This second edition significantly extends thespecificationof CIMOSA in several ways.

Constructs for modellingresources and organizational aspects and an extendedframeworkfor the integrating infrastructure are presented. A user guide is given for requirements modelling. Case-studyexamples are used to demonstrate templates for CIMOSAmodelling constructs. Finally several AMICE technicalreports address specific subjects.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540562567
• ISBN 13: 9783540562566
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 245
• Editor: ESPRIT Consortium AMICE