Arquitectura holónica de referencia para empresas de fabricación sostenibles distribuidas

The introduction of new operational requirements to manufacturing enterprises determines an emergent complexity in their life cycle, due to different aspects such as geographic distribution, volatility and incertainty of business, incorporating TIC and intelligent technology, adoption of "edge technologies" to scales macro, meso and micro and incorporation of sustainability requirements. In the present work, it has established a paradigmatic framework to conceive Enterprises under an Integrated Architecture, as provided by its complexity from the variety required for sustainability (S) integrating business objectives (Economic S.), natural environment (Ecological S.) and individuals, social groups and cultural environment (Social S.). For this, the Holonic paradigm is proposed as a framework for bio-psychosocial inspiration that enables the design of Holonic Enterprises and entities distributed in the range required by the environment.La introducción de nuevos requerimientos operacionales a las empresas de fabricación determina una complejidad emergente en su ciclo de vida debida a distintos aspectos tales como: su distribución geográfica, volatilidad e incertidumbre de los negocios, incorporación de TIC y tecnología inteligente, adopción de “tecnologías de borde” a escalas macro, meso y micro e incorporación de requerimientos de sostenibilidad. En el presente trabajo, se ha establecido un marco paradigmático que permita concebir empresas bajo una arquitectura integrada, que contemple su complejidad desde la variedad requerida para la sostenibilidad (S), integrando los objetivos del negocio (S. Económica), el medioambiente natural (S. Ecológica) y las personas, grupos sociales y el medio cultural (S. Social). Para ello, se plantea el paradigma holónico como un marco de inspiración bio-psico-social que posibilita la concepción de empresas como entidades holónicas distribuidas de la variedad requerida por el entorn

Urbanization of Information Systems as a Trigger for enhancing Agility: A State in The Tunisian Firms

Nowadays, the information Systems (IS) became one of the main assets of modern corporations, but it faces many problems. Among the most important are low productivity and a large number of failures like obsolescence, heavier, slower and complexity of applications integration. The problem of low productivity of IS was the product of the software crisis, as indicated by the delayed development and implementation of ISs and accumulation which leads to maintenance problems. Requests for new or improved version of the IS have grown faster than the ability of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) to develop the existing IS. Some reasons are: the increase in the cost of software development and the IT choices of the CIO. All the above problems are further exacerbated by the growing complexity and size of software products. The IS is obliged to overcome these difficulties and ensure its evolution. To do this, urbanization is a framework that aims to simplify the IS, to improve communication between its components and to ensure its evolution. In an exploratory approach, this study examines the concept of urbanization studying its impact on the IS to ascertain agility. This was done in order to ascertain the evolution of IS and guarantee the agility facing the environment turbulence. The general assertion is that the Urbanized Information Systems (UIS) changes a firm vision because its procure flexibility, reactivity and interoperability of UIS. The originality of this paper is to explore IS urbanization considered as a French framework of Enterprise Architecture (EA), this study is an empirical validation of the agility of UIS. Keywords Information Systems, Urbanization, Enterprise Architecture (EA), flexibility, Agilit

Ontology-based solutions for interoperability among product lifecycle management systems: A systematic literature review

During recent years, globalization has had an impact on the competitive capacity of industries, forcing them to integrate their productive processes with other, geographically distributed, facilities. This requires the information systems that support such processes to interoperate. Significant attention has been paid to the development of ontology-based solutions, which are meant to tackle issues from inconsistency to semantic interoperability and knowledge reusability. This paper looks into how the available technology, models and ontology-based solutions might interact within the manufacturing industry environment to achieve semantic interoperability among industrial information systems. Through a systematic literature review, this paper has aimed to identify the most relevant elements to consider in the development of an ontology-based solution and how these solutions are being deployed in industry. The research analyzed 54 studies in alignment with the specific requirements of our research questions. The most relevant results show that ontology-based solutions can be set up using OWL as the ontology language, Protégé as the ontology modeling tool, Jena as the application programming interface to interact with the built ontology, and different standards from the International Organization for Standardization Technical Committee 184, Subcommittee 4 or 5, to get the foundational concepts, axioms, and relationships to develop the knowledge base. We believe that the findings of this study make an important contribution to practitioners and researchers as they provide useful information about different projects and choices involved in undertaking projects in the field of industrial ontology application.Fil: Fraga, Alvaro Luis. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Santa Fe. Instituto de Desarrollo y Diseño. Universidad Tecnológica Nacional. Facultad Regional Santa Fe. Instituto de Desarrollo y Diseño; ArgentinaFil: Vegetti, Maria Marcela. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Santa Fe. Instituto de Desarrollo y Diseño. Universidad Tecnológica Nacional. Facultad Regional Santa Fe. Instituto de Desarrollo y Diseño; ArgentinaFil: Leone, Horacio Pascual. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Santa Fe. Instituto de Desarrollo y Diseño. Universidad Tecnológica Nacional. Facultad Regional Santa Fe. Instituto de Desarrollo y Diseño; Argentin

An approach to enacting business process models in support of the life cycle of integrated manufacturing systems

The complexity of enterprise engineering processes requires the application of reference architectures as means of guiding the achievement of an adequate level of business integration. This research aims to address important aspects of this requirement by associating the formalism of reference architectures to various life cycle phases of integrating manufacturing systems (IMS) and enabling their use in addressing contemporary system engineering issues. In pursuit of this aim, the following research activities were carried out: (1) to devise a framework which supports key phases of the IMS life cycle and (2) to populate part of this framework with an initial combination of architectures which can be encapsulated into a computer-aided systems engineering environment. This has led to the creation of a workbench capable of providing support for modelling, analysis, simulation, rapid-prototyping, configuration and run-time operation of an IMS, based on a consistent set of models associated with the engineering processes involved. The research effort concentrated on selecting and investigating the use of appropriate formalisms which underpin a selection of architectures and tools (i. e. CIM-OSA, Petrinets, object-oriented methods and CIM-BIOSYS), this by designing, implementing, applying and testing the workbench. The main contribution of this research is to demonstrate that it is possible to retain an adequate level of formalism, via computational structures and models, which extend through the IMS life cycle from a conceptual description of the system through to actions that the system performs when operating. The underlying methodology which supported this contribution is based on enacting models of system behaviour which encode important coordination aspects of manufacturing systems. The strategy for demonstrating the incorporation of formalism to the IMS life cycle was to enable the aggregation into a workbench of knowledge of 'what' the system is expected to achieve (i. e. 'problems' to be addressed) and 'how' the system can achieve it (i. e possible 'solutions'). Within the workbench, such a knowledge is represented through an amalgamation of business process modelling and object-oriented modelling approaches which, when adequately manipulated, can lead to business integration

Enterprise Integration Modeling Linking Enterprise Integration Architecture With Business Strategy Planning

The goals for this study were twofold. The first goal was to identify planning variables for linking both organizational and architectural objectives for developing enterprise integration architecture. The second goal was to validate enterprise integration modeling methodology as a viable planning tool for the design, development, and maintenance of the enterprise integration architecture. This lack of linkage at the intellectual dimension level can be characterized as having a dysfunctional effect on enterprise integration strategy formulation and infrastructure development. There is a disjoint between adoptions of appropriate information technology in relation to organizational objectives. This includes misapplication of investments in information technology selection and business systems development portfolio, failed information systems projects, architectures that do not support the strategic direction, and the organization\u27s inability to manage change associated with environmental imperatives that impact the firm\u27s ability to define information technology and systems requirements for competitive positioning. In order to achieve the objectives the author in this research, developed a conceptual Enterprise Integration Architecture Planning Model and Methodology (EIAPMIM) model as the basis for linking enterprise integration architecture objectives and organizational objectives. Research data confirmed the need to effect linkages between organizational objectives and architectural objectives to achieve enterprise integration and validated enterprise integration modeling as the means by which enterprise integration architecture is developed