Authors:
Salah Baïna
1
;
Hervé Panetto
1
and
Khalid Benali
2
Affiliations:
1
CRAN (UMR 7039), University Henry Poincaré Nancy I, France
;
2
LORIA (UMR 7503), France
Keyword(s):
Process Modelling, Models Synchronisation, Manufacturing Systems, Enterprise Integration, Systems Interoperability, Model Driven Architecture, Models Mapping.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Modeling Concepts and Information Integration Tools
Abstract:
Nowadays, enterprises are confronted to growing needs for traceability, product genealogy and product life cycle management. To meet those needs, the enterprise and applications in the enterprise environment have to manage flows of information that relate to flows of material and that are managed in shop floor level. Nevertheless, 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 the “Holon” modelling concept as a means for the synchronisation of both physical view and informational views. Afterwards, we show how the concept of holon can play a major role in ensuring interoperability in the enterprise context.