Individualized production challenges established manufacturing approaches in terms of modularization, flexibility and efficient reconfiguration. Modular production systems with high flexibility, capable of interacting...
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Individualized production challenges established manufacturing approaches in terms of modularization, flexibility and efficient reconfiguration. Modular production systems with high flexibility, capable of interacting with products and humans, and vertically integrated with the business environment provide new possibilities for overcoming these challenges. Such flexible manufacturing approaches require seamless integration between all involved parties from the enterprise resource planning level down to the shop floor. Service-oriented architectures with standards geared towards automation claim to provide easier development and integration of modular production systems. However, in order to support the desired flexibility and integrability, a coherent modeling approach for manufacturing processes is required, in particular focusing on the orchestration between production tasks, resources, humans and services. To address these challenges, we introduce in this contribution a system-level approach for flexible manufacturing comprised of reconfigurable modular production cells, which can be easily composed into production lines. Reconfigurability is achieved through exchangeable process components, the use of lightweight robot manipulators as versatile handling subsystems as well as a cell control scheme based on executable businessprocessmodels to allow runtime service orchestration. The systemic approach can be applied to realize a customer specific production down to lot size one and was validated in a vertically integrated production line manufacturing an industrial product with high variability. The resulting system has been exhibited at different trade fairs and demonstrates our interpretation of the SmartFactory paradigm for individualized production.
This paper describes the Global Track and Trace System (GUS) developed for supporting the management of food traceability along the food supply chain, from the primary producer to the final consumer. The main goal of ...
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This paper describes the Global Track and Trace System (GUS) developed for supporting the management of food traceability along the food supply chain, from the primary producer to the final consumer. The main goal of GUS is to support the different users involved in a food supply chain and assist in the process of traceability management. The informative system has been developed taking into account the different features of a food supply chain. A general framework has been generated for supporting future evolutions and customizations. Different steps, which involve the phases of supply chain analysis, supply chain modelling, data analysis and data modelling, are at the base of the methodological approach followed during the phase of system design and development. The solution adopted for the information management is generally applicable, which means that it meets the requirements of different types of food industries. The model can be applied in real-life situations that might benefits from the traceability solution. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
In organizations, the businessprocessmodeling is of big importance to report, understand and automate processes. These organizations usually come unstructured documents and difficult to understand by analysts. The e...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9788576693178
In organizations, the businessprocessmodeling is of big importance to report, understand and automate processes. These organizations usually come unstructured documents and difficult to understand by analysts. The extraction models or fragments process from textual descriptions may contribute to minimizing the effort required to processmodeling. In this context, this paper proposes an approach to generate text-oriented process from the text in natural language. This paper proposes to investigate the structure of a text in natural language must show to from this one can extract fragments or processmodels. Based on the study of grammar classes accomplished in the context of this research, there is no established or standardized order in which the grammar classes should be shown in the text in natural language. Thus, preliminary results of this research show that by mapping rules and correlations between words represent the grammatical classes indicate a process element, through keywords and/or verb tenses.
This paper presents "BPMN Miner", a process discovery technique that uses BPMN as the representational language for the discovery result. The proposed approach is novel in the sense that it is able to repres...
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ISBN:
(数字)9783319158952
ISBN:
(纸本)9783319158952;9783319158945
This paper presents "BPMN Miner", a process discovery technique that uses BPMN as the representational language for the discovery result. The proposed approach is novel in the sense that it is able to represent control-flow with BPMN constructs, but also because it augments the control-flow perspective with an organizational dimension by discovering swimlanes that represent organizational roles in the businessprocess. Additional advantages of the proposed mining approach can be summarized as follows: it provides intuitive and easy-to-use abstraction/specification functionality which makes it applicable to event logs with various complexity levels, it provides instant feedback about the conformance between the input log and the resulting model based on a dedicated fitness metric, it is robust to noise, and it can easily integrate with modeling and other BPM tools with exporting functionality through the XPDL-format. In this way, BPMN Miner will take process mining one step closer to the status of indispensable for businessprocess reengineering as discovered models are immediately available in the preferred language of a majority of practitioners, educators and researchers.
In a simulation project, a good conceptual model representation is critical for communicating conceptual models between stakeholders. A conceptual model describes the problem domain and model specifications. The descr...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781457721090
In a simulation project, a good conceptual model representation is critical for communicating conceptual models between stakeholders. A conceptual model describes the problem domain and model specifications. The description of the problem domain includes the objectives, inputs, outputs, content, assumptions and simplifications made in the model. The model specifications are used to specify the model's behavior. This article focuses on the representation of the model content (structure, boundary and level of detail) component of an agent-based simulation (ABS) model. For this, we propose the use of business process model and notation (BPMN) from the Object Management Group. A Web-based visual modeling tool has been developed using JavaScript to demonstrate how BPMN can be used to represent an ABS conceptual model and how the tool translates the conceptual model into code ready for execution using Repast HPC.
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