- Dr François Vernadat has been a research officer, first at the National Research Council of Canada (NRCC), Ottawa, in... moreDr François Vernadat has been a research officer, first at the National Research Council of Canada (NRCC), Ottawa, in the 80’s and then at the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique (INRIA), France, in the 90’s. Since 1995 he has been a professor at the University of Metz in automatic control and industrial engineering. At the end of 2001, he joined the European Commission, DG Eurostat in Luxemburg, as an administrator in the IT Directorate and then DG Infomatics (DIGIT). In 2008 he moved to the European Court of Auditors in Luxemburg, another European institution, where he is currently the head of the Information Systems and Methods (ISM) unit. His research work has been dealing with enterprise architectures, enterprise modelling and integration, information systems design and analysis, CIM and various aspects of industrial engineering (facility layout, performance evaluation, cost estimation, competency modelling and value-risk management). He has lectured in many countries in Europe, North, Latin and South America, China and North Africa. He has consulted several large and medium-sized companies in France and Canada (automotive industry, aeronautics industry, and software houses). He is the author of over 280 scientific papers in journals, conferences, and edited books. He is the author of the textbook "Enterprise Modeling and Integration: Principles and Applications", co-author of the book "Practice of Petri nets in Manufacturing" and co-editor of the book "Integrated Manufacturing Systems Engineering", all published by Chapman & Hall. He is an adviser for International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, an associate editor for Computers in Industry, International Journal of Production Research, International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems, and is on the editorial board of Computers and Industrial Engineering. He served as vice-chairman several technical committees of the IFAC, has been a member of IEEE and ACM and he has been chairman or vice-chairman of several international conferences on industrial engineering.edit
This is a report of breakout sessions from Workshop 3, Workgroup 2 and Workgroup 3. The two groups combined on the second day. Recommendations which emerged were sufficiently strong that the group decided to present them in the form of a... more
This is a report of breakout sessions from Workshop 3, Workgroup 2 and Workgroup 3. The two groups combined on the second day. Recommendations which emerged were sufficiently strong that the group decided to present them in the form of a skeletal description of a project to address the nature of standards for enterprise integration that better address the virtual enterprise case of distributed control.
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This paper considers Enterprise Integration (EI) as a further tool in developing business strategy and presents a methodology for its employment, including: (a) a profiling process, embracing benefits and capability, through which the EI... more
This paper considers Enterprise Integration (EI) as a further tool in developing business strategy and presents a methodology for its employment, including: (a) a profiling process, embracing benefits and capability, through which the EI status and potential of a business can be assessed, and (b) the employment of models and standards in establishing appropriate action..
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This paper reports on the discussions and findings of the breakout session “Services for Integration” as part of the Workshop on Vendor Support for Users of Enterprise Integration.
Agility is the ability to timely react to changing conditions. For an enterprise, it means to be able to respond quickly and successfully to change. This Chapter discusses Enterprise Integration techniques in the context of agile... more
Agility is the ability to timely react to changing conditions. For an enterprise, it means to be able to respond quickly and successfully to change. This Chapter discusses Enterprise Integration techniques in the context of agile management of stand-alone or networked organizations, focusing on the manufacturing sector and other service industries. The goal of Enterprise Integration is to provide support to cope with required system reactivity and needs for managing change. Enterprise Integration and its management can provide support to cope with required system reactivity and needs for managing change in manufacturing or service companies. The approach resolutely adopts a model-based engineering and management viewpoint. One of the key points is to think the business in terms of a large set of business processes (or projects) and a large set of business entities (or organization units), all interacting with one another and which have to be timely coordinated to achieve the desired business mission.
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The information system is a central component of any manufacturing system in the sense that it provides support to its two other fundamental subsystems: the physical system (or operational system, i.e. where the physical actions take... more
The information system is a central component of any manufacturing system in the sense that it provides support to its two other fundamental subsystems: the physical system (or operational system, i.e. where the physical actions take place using enterprise resources) and the decision system (i.e. where strategic and tactical decisions are made). The relationships among these three subsystems are illustrated by Fig. 5.1. While discussions of the previous chapters of the book are mainly concerned with modeling and analysis of the decision and physical systems of manufacturing, this chapter focuses more on the information system of a manufacturing enterprise.
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Today's manufacturing cost reduction and competitiveness largely depends on the application of automated manufacturing. Automated manufacturing could be even more efficient if computerizations of the process is taken one step... more
Today's manufacturing cost reduction and competitiveness largely depends on the application of automated manufacturing. Automated manufacturing could be even more efficient if computerizations of the process is taken one step further—to the integration of the design and manufacturing processes by means of or through a well-structured data base. This paper refers to several important issues related to integrity constraints in relational data bases. The literature review provides a summary of what has been done in this area by other researchers. In addition, some of the concepts proposed, developed, and even implemented before are introduced. A brief look at the classification of integrity constraints is performed by examining the real world and engineering and manufacturing worlds. This classification is supported by various manufacturing examples for each type of integrity constraints. Further, we discuss the issues of how to express and manage integrity constraints in relational data bases with particular emphasis on manufacturing applications.
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The paper presents the conclusion of Working Group 3 of ICEIMT’97 Workshop I dealing with investigating the management of change in the context of Enterprise Integration taking into consideration human factors. The paper is concluded by a... more
The paper presents the conclusion of Working Group 3 of ICEIMT’97 Workshop I dealing with investigating the management of change in the context of Enterprise Integration taking into consideration human factors. The paper is concluded by a proposal for a research project on the impact of organisation structures on process structures and vice-versa for developing flexible, responsive organisational structures.
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One of the trends of modern manufacturing is to progress towards Computer-Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) for better communication, co-ordination, and efficiency throughout the enterprise. Communications systems and information systems are... more
One of the trends of modern manufacturing is to progress towards Computer-Integrated Manufacturing (CIM) for better communication, co-ordination, and efficiency throughout the enterprise. Communications systems and information systems are key components for achieving true integration of distributed manufacturing systems (horizontal integration). Furthermore, information is the basic ingredient used for decision-making at the various decision levels of any manufacturing enterprise (vertical integration). Information is the “glue” which ties together all the modules of a manufacturing system while the underlying integrating infrastructure (i.e., a set of computer services connecting modules and ensuring transparent information exchange) is the backbone of its information system [2].
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The development of enterprise integration solutions requires the identification of core business processes, enterprise objects and their flows as well as essential resources and their use in day-to-day operations of an enterprise or of a... more
The development of enterprise integration solutions requires the identification of core business processes, enterprise objects and their flows as well as essential resources and their use in day-to-day operations of an enterprise or of a network of enterprises. This paper focuses on the enterprise model creation process using the computer integrated manufacturing open system architecture (CIMOSA) modelling framework, assuming that
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Enterprise modelling is a central activity in enterprise engineering (EE) and enterprise integration (EI). In this paper, we first present our definition and recall fundamental principles of enterprise modelling. Then we focus on new... more
Enterprise modelling is a central activity in enterprise engineering (EE) and enterprise integration (EI). In this paper, we first present our definition and recall fundamental principles of enterprise modelling. Then we focus on new developments of the CIMOSA modelling ...
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Abstract The paper provides a summary of the discussions held in a working group during ICEIMT Workshop 4 (Enterprise Integration Principles and Fundamentals). The topic of the working group was “Formal Semantics of Enterprise Models”. In... more
Abstract The paper provides a summary of the discussions held in a working group during ICEIMT Workshop 4 (Enterprise Integration Principles and Fundamentals). The topic of the working group was “Formal Semantics of Enterprise Models”. In the paper, we suggest that enterprise integration is currently hindered by shortcomings of enterprise modelling languages (section 1), that a better language should be defined and that its semantics should be defined in terms of a formal theory (section 2). The paper concludes with two ...
... CIM). Conlponents of the manu-facturing process like manufacturing resource planning. ... planning. The sequence of manufacturing operations to be applied to a part (including part han-dling) is specified by a process plan (PP). ...
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Industrial performance can be defined in terms of numerous criteria to be synthesized for global control purposes, many of them being of a complex nature, i.e. not related to one elementary physical measure. In this context, determining a... more
Industrial performance can be defined in terms of numerous criteria to be synthesized for global control purposes, many of them being of a complex nature, i.e. not related to one elementary physical measure. In this context, determining a global performance expression raises the issue of performance expression aggregation. To address such an aggregation issue, so-called performance measurement systems need to
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... It is described in terms of business processes. ... Principle of functional decomposition: Used to group ac-tivities into processes, and processes into larger pro-cesses. ... Principle of process and resource decoupling: Used to... more
... It is described in terms of business processes. ... Principle of functional decomposition: Used to group ac-tivities into processes, and processes into larger pro-cesses. ... Principle of process and resource decoupling: Used to achieve organisation flexibility by viewing processes ...
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A repository and a distributed architecture for enterprise modeling components (EMC) are proposed. The components are used by enterprise designers to (re)engineer particular business models. Each component represents a chunk of business... more
A repository and a distributed architecture for enterprise modeling components (EMC) are proposed. The components are used by enterprise designers to (re)engineer particular business models. Each component represents a chunk of business knowledge on some parts of an enterprise or of some enterprise network. The repository ensures that enterprise components can be shared by the actors of the enterprise network.
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Research Interests: Distributed Computing, Information Technology, Knowledge sharing, Information and Communication technology, Cooperation, and 13 moreOpen Source, Interoperability, Communication Technology, Computer Software, Best practice, Manufacturing Engineering, World Wide Web, Communication technologies, Manufacturing System, Production System, Web Based Applications, Internet, and Enterprise integration
The timeliness of this move was marked by the fact that by that time several groups around the world had been working on the definition of reference architectures and there was no way to compare or evaluate the results. These groups... more
The timeliness of this move was marked by the fact that by that time several groups around the world had been working on the definition of reference architectures and there was no way to compare or evaluate the results. These groups included private organisations/sw/hw vendors, academic research institutions, and standards bodies.