Model-based Enterprise Research Articles

Understanding processes for model-based enterprise transformation planning

The aim of this paper is to deliver insight into enterprise transformation planning incorporating Enterprise Architecture (EA) models. The paper is based on analytically developed approaches to model-based enterprise transformation planning and uses six case studies to evaluate and extend the existing planning processes. To understand the planning situations and their respective planning processes, we cluster the observed processes and link them to empirically derived EA realisation forms. Thus, the resulting process model induced from our empirical observations can be tailored to fit specific needs of an organisation depending on its realisation form of EA.

Special Session on Current Industrial Challenges for Enterprise Modelling

During last decades, enterprise modelling was developed as a full research topic to become one major key point within enterprise engineering. In this way many tools came up. After this first period, time was came for new requirements, especially in term of convergence (IFAC-IFIP task force on enterprise integration works, ENV 40003 standard, UEML initiative) and in term of adaptation with new manufacturing paradigms. The purpose of this session is to give some responses to the second point, especially about simulation and evaluation of industrial systems (three papers: New simulation requirements for model-based enterprise engineering, Unified Property Specification Language for industrial systems analysis: LUSP and Implementation of an approach of performance estimation for enterprise process analysis) and about the choice, implementation and maintenance of large information systems such as ERP or SCM (one paper: Enterprise modelling and new information technologies).