Abstract
Production companies are adopting new methods for the improvement of their managing production processes. The cost, quality and time are still key important attributes for process improvement. This is reason why the Business Process Management (BPM) is the core of management in different areas, e.g., quality management, sustainability management. The new technologies based on Internet of Things and Services, SMART solutions, and the concept Industry 4.0 are opening new possibilities of BPM implementation. This theoretical paper deals with a review of new trends in BPM and a presentation of the possibilities of core technologies for Industry 4.0 in phases of BPM applications.
Highlights
Industry 4.0 is a recent keyword in the manufacturing area
The term Business Process Management (BPM) has been used in many ways, and several alternatives — from process improvement to intelligent BPM — have been proposed
The Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) language allows description of the conduct and behaviour of business processes as a sequence of activities, including their branches, which are engaged in the process, while these activities are represented by web services (WS) [2]
Summary
The term ‘Industry 4.0’ has been used mainly by the German government in high-tech strategy. This strategy, with its related current literature, is called Industry 4.0, like ‘4th Industrial Revolution’. Governments in different countries have adopted concepts that support implementation of the concept Industry 4.0. Business Process Management (BPM) is a fundamental theory adopted in large numbers of companies in different industrial sectors. The concept BPM has been adopted into international standards, the ISO 9001 for quality management for example. One research question is linked with the future of process management and its implementation for the concept Industry 4.0. This paper tries to find an answer for this research question based on a review of suitable technologies and methods for BPM implementation
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