Enterprise Integration and Information Architecture: A Systems Perspective on Industrial Information Integration

436 Pages·2014·5.23 MB·English

by  Li Da Xu

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Contents
Preface .........................................................................................................xiii
Author .........................................................................................................xvii
1 Introduction ...........................................................................................1
1.1 Modern Enterprise Solution ..............................................................1
1.2 Emergence of ESs ..............................................................................2
1.3 Growth of ESs ...................................................................................4
1.3.1 Brief History of ESs ..............................................................5
1.3.2 Characteristics of ESs ...........................................................9
1.4 ES Examples ....................................................................................14
1.4.1 ES Applications in the Manufacturing Industry .................14
1.4.1.1 C3P System ........................................................14
1.4.1.2 Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems .............15
1.4.1.3 Aero-Engine Pipe Routing ..................................17
1.4.1.4 Assembly Planning .............................................18
1.4.2 ES Applications in Healthcare ............................................19
1.4.3 ES Applications in Managing Dams ...................................24
1.4.4 ES Applications in the Telecommunication Industry ..........25
1.4.5 ESs in Transportation .........................................................26
1.4.6 ES Applications in Other Areas ..........................................27
1.5 Conclusion ......................................................................................29
References ..................................................................................................30
2 Enterprise Integration ..........................................................................33
2.1 Enterprise Integration ......................................................................33
2.2 Manufacturing Integration ..............................................................36
2.2.1 Brief Description of Manufacturing Enterprises .................36
2.2.2 Challenges Facing Manufacturing Enterprises ....................36
2.2.3 Modularity and Integration to Meet Challenges .................39
2.2.4 Manufacturing Integration .................................................41
2.3 Engineering Integration ...................................................................45
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2.4 Customer Integration ......................................................................50
2.5 ESs in Evolution ..............................................................................53
2.5.1 Design Considerations Changes .........................................53
2.5.2 Industry-Oriented Enterprise Resource Planning ...............60
2.5.2.1 Introduction .......................................................61
2.5.2.2 IERP ..................................................................62
2.5.2.3 IERP versus General-Purpose ERP ....................63
2.5.2.4 Connotation of IERP-Oriented
Componentization .............................................64
2.5.2.5 Business-Driven Approach to IERP
System-Oriented Componentization ..................65
2.5.2.6 Levels of Business-Process-Driven Modeling .....66
2.5.2.7 Metamodel for Business-Process-Driven
IERP Componentization ....................................67
2.5.2.8 Category of Business Components ......................68
2.5.2.9 Summary ............................................................70
2.6 Entire Resource Planning ................................................................71
2.6.1 Comprehensive MF Theory ................................................72
2.6.2 Comprehensive MF Theory and ERP .................................74
2.7 Integrating ESs: Future Prospects ....................................................74
References .................................................................................................77
3 Extended Enterprise Integration in Supply Chain ...............................79
3.1 Interenterprise Collaboration ...........................................................79
3.2 Supply Chain Collaboration ............................................................83
3.2.1 Service-Oriented Architecture ...........................................90
3.2.2 RFID and IoT ....................................................................92
3.2.3 Agent ..................................................................................93
3.2.4 Workflow Management ......................................................94
3.3 Integrating Supply Chain ..............................................................100
3.4 Extended Enterprise Integration ....................................................102
3.5 Examples of Recent Research ........................................................108
3.5.1 Enterprise Collaboration: An Agent-Based Model ............108
3.5.2 VE Collaborative Operation: A Grid-Based Model ..........115
3.6 Summary .......................................................................................120
References ................................................................................................122
4 Enterprise and Supply Chain Architecture ........................................129
4.1 Enterprise Architecture ..................................................................129
4.2 Supply Chain Modeling and the Relationship with EM
and EA Modeling ..........................................................................136
4.2.1 SCM Models in Operations Research, Operations
Management, and SCM ...................................................139
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4.2.2 SCM Models Involving Intraorganizational
Interoperation ...................................................................140
4.2.3 SCM Models Involving Interorganizational
Interoperation ...................................................................141
4.2.4 EM and EA Methods Related to SCM .............................143
4.3 Closing the Gaps between Existing SCM, EM, and
EA Models ..............................................................................149
4.4 S oftware Architecture: An Example of Recent Research ................150
4.4.1 Types of Software Architecture .........................................152
4.4.2 Scenario-Based Software Architecture
Analysis: A New Method ..................................................153
4.5 Modeling and Analysis of Workflow for LSCs: An Example of
Integrative Modeling of SCM and EM ..........................................155
4.5.1 Lean Supply Chain ...........................................................157
4.5.2 Assumptions .....................................................................158
4.5.3 Standardization of Collaborating Business Process
between Organizations .....................................................159
4.5.4 Modeling and Analysis of Cross-Organizational
Workflow ..........................................................................159
4.5.5 Application Example ........................................................160
References ................................................................................................162
5 Information Architecture for Enterprise and Supply Chain:
A New Discipline of Industrial Information Integration ...................167
5.1 Intraorganizational Systems ...........................................................168
5.2 Interorganizational Systems ...........................................................172
5.3 Model-Driven Architecture ...........................................................181
5.4 Service-Oriented Architecture .......................................................187
5.5 Interoperability Models .................................................................191
5.6 Industrial Information Integration: Examples ...............................194
5.6.1 Multilingual Semantic Interoperation in
Interorganizational Enterprise Systems .............................194
5.6.2 Agricultural Ecosystem Enterprise Information System ......195
5.6.3 Water Resource Management Enterprise System ..............196
5.6.4 Automated Assembly Planning System
for Complex Products ......................................................200
5.6.5 Railway Signaling Enterprise System Based on IIIE ........200
5.7 I IIE: A New Discipline of Industrial Information Integration .......203
5.7.1 Business Process Management ..........................................207
5.7.2 Information Integration and Interoperability ....................211
5.7.3 EA and EAI ......................................................................213
5.7.4 Service-Oriented Architecture ..........................................214
References ................................................................................................215
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6 Enterprise Process Modeling and Workflow Management ................219
6.1 Introduction ..................................................................................219
6.2 Workflow Basics ............................................................................221
6.3 Intraorganizational Workflows ......................................................224
6.3.1 Modeling Perspectives ......................................................224
6.3.2 Modeling Techniques ......................................................226
6.4 Interorganizational Workflows ......................................................232
6.4.1 Workflow Modeling between Organizations ....................235
6.4.2 Interaction Models ...........................................................236
6.4.3 Routing Approaches .........................................................240
6.5 Workflow Analysis .........................................................................241
6.5.1 Qualitative Analysis ..........................................................241
6.5.2 Quantitative Analysis .......................................................242
6.5.3 Empirical Study ................................................................243
6.6 Future Directions .........................................................................244
6.6.1 Technical Aspects ............................................................244
6.6.2 Managerial Aspects...........................................................247
6.7 Summary .......................................................................................248
References ................................................................................................249
7 Enterprise Information Integration
Modeling and Integrating Information Flows ...................................255
7.1 Data and Information Integration .................................................255
7.2 RFID: An Emerging Information Architecture .............................258
7.3 I oT: An Emerging Internet-Based Information Architecture ..........259
7.3.1 Introduction .....................................................................259
7.3.1.1 IoT-Oriented Infrastructure for
Manufacturing Systems ....................................262
7.3.2 Enabling Technologies ......................................................263
7.3.2.1 Ubiquitous Computing ....................................263
7.3.2.2 RFID ...............................................................264
7.3.2.3 Wireless Sensor Networks .................................265
7.3.2.4 Cloud Computing ...........................................266
7.3.2.5 More on the Enabling Technologies of IoT ......268
7.3.3 Standards ..........................................................................272
7.3.4 Current Research ..............................................................273
7.3.5 Applications ......................................................................275
7.3.5.1 Introduction .....................................................275
7.3.5.2 Industrial Deployment .....................................277
7.3.5.3 Social Internet of Things ...................................277
7.3.5.4 Healthcare Applications....................................279
7.3.5.5 IoT in Infrastructures ......................................280