ManLang: A Requirements Modeling Language for the Production Planning in Manufacturing

Mert Ozkaya, Gulsah Gokcek

2022

Abstract

In manufacturing industries, production planning involves making early decisions about the design and production of a product that focuses on different concerns such as the investment to be made, the product (and its parts) to be manufactured, production line, workstations, and production processes. The decisions and requirements about those concerns tend to be specified using office tools in many manufacturing companies (e.g., MS Excel). However, office tools lead to some issues including (i)the lack of support for separation of concerns, graphical editing, precise notation set, and error detection, and (ii)inconsistent and incomplete requirements specifications. In this paper, we propose a modeling language called ManLang for specifying the production planning requirements graphically using multiple viewpoints (i.e., investment, product, line, workstation, and process). With ManLang, the different viewpoint models may be specified separately in a way that the viewpoint models can also be traced via the defined relationships between the viewpoints. We support ManLang with a graphical modeling editor, which enables for the multiple-viewpoints modeling and the automated model validation against such properties as model completeness and correctness. We further evaluated the usability of ManLang and its editor via a survey conducted among the practitioners from manufacturing industries.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Ozkaya M. and Gokcek G. (2022). ManLang: A Requirements Modeling Language for the Production Planning in Manufacturing. In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE, ISBN 978-989-758-568-5, pages 395-404. DOI: 10.5220/0011058400003176

in Bibtex Style

@conference{enase22,
author={Mert Ozkaya and Gulsah Gokcek},
title={ManLang: A Requirements Modeling Language for the Production Planning in Manufacturing},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,},
year={2022},
pages={395-404},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011058400003176},
isbn={978-989-758-568-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,
TI - ManLang: A Requirements Modeling Language for the Production Planning in Manufacturing
SN - 978-989-758-568-5
AU - Ozkaya M.
AU - Gokcek G.
PY - 2022
SP - 395
EP - 404
DO - 10.5220/0011058400003176