Electrical Engineering Enterprise's Architecture Modeling as a Basis for its Transformation into Industry 4.0

Abstract

The technology of current electrical engineering enterprise ‘s architecture modeling is studied in a form which is convenient for analyzing the architecture’s state and determining its break with the target architecture which must be possessed by the enterprise during transformation into Industry 4.0. Instruments that are necessary for enterprise architecture designing and analyzing are still in status of development. Analyzing of current enterprise architecture demands methods of complex description of its layers and single elements. In this context enterprise architecture includes following: enterprise business architecture, application, data architecture, and technical system architecture. Aiming to find the best architectural solution, limits of resources, which will be available for building the enterprise architecture, as well as a set of metrics for evaluating and comparing project decisions, must be identified at each level. At the business architecture level, the business processes parameters and their relationship with other elements of this layer - organizational structure, management models, conceptual data model, as well as with elements of other layers of architecture are being analyzed. The applied methodologies will make it possible to objectify and concretize the concepts of enterprise architecture building, which will allow us to formulate a set of functional requirements for the software module for the analysis and evaluation of the optimal architecture. ArchiMate language allows to model an architecture in the most full and comprehensive way. An approach to the search for the optimal architectural solution based on significant criterion, which affects the architecture of the enterprise as a whole, is suggested. The proposed it contributes to the effective achievement of the goals of the enterprise within the framework of the adopted strategies. The set of enterprise business architecture has been developed with the use of the ArchiMate language. This approach is applicable to modeling the architecture of an electrical engeneeting enterprise, which provides support for modern technologies as the basis for its transformation into Industry 4.0.