Production-Aware Analysis of Multi-disciplinary Systems Engineering Processes

Lukas Kathrein, Arndt Lüder, Kristof Meixner, Dietmar Winkler, Stefan Biffl

2019

Abstract

The Industry 4.0 vision of flexible manufacturing systems depends on the collaboration of domain experts coming from a variety of engineering disciplines and on the explicit representation of knowledge on relationships between products and production systems (PPR knowledge). However, in multi-disciplinary systems engineering organizations, process analysis and improvement has traditionally focused on one specific discipline rather than on the collaboration of several workgroups and their exchange of knowledge on product/ion, i.e., product and production processes. In this paper, we investigate requirements for the product/ion-aware analysis of engineering processes to improve the engineering process across workgroups. We introduce a product/ion-aware engineering processes analysis (PPR EPA) method, to identify gaps in PPR knowledge needed and provided. For representing PPR knowledge, we introduce a product/ion-aware data processing map (PPR DPM) by extending the BPMN 2.0 standard, adding PPR knowledge classification. We evaluate the contribution in a case study at a large production systems engineering company. The domain experts found the PPR EPA method using the PPR DPM usable and useful to trace design decisions in the engineering process as foundation for advanced quality assurance analyses.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Kathrein L., Lüder A., Meixner K., Winkler D. and Biffl S. (2019). Production-Aware Analysis of Multi-disciplinary Systems Engineering Processes.In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-372-8, pages 48-60. DOI: 10.5220/0007618000480060

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis19,
author={Lukas Kathrein and Arndt Lüder and Kristof Meixner and Dietmar Winkler and Stefan Biffl},
title={Production-Aware Analysis of Multi-disciplinary Systems Engineering Processes},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2019},
pages={48-60},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007618000480060},
isbn={978-989-758-372-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - Production-Aware Analysis of Multi-disciplinary Systems Engineering Processes
SN - 978-989-758-372-8
AU - Kathrein L.
AU - Lüder A.
AU - Meixner K.
AU - Winkler D.
AU - Biffl S.
PY - 2019
SP - 48
EP - 60
DO - 10.5220/0007618000480060