Process Management Platform Research Articles

The Application of Building Information Model in the Structural Design of Intelligent Buildings

Due to the irreversibility of building structures in the construction process, unreasonable construction methods are likely to cause economic losses and great negative social impacts. Therefore, the study of scientific and efficient intelligent construction methods for building structures has become a research hotspot in recent years, mainly including intelligent building design, construction control and safety analysis methods. Therefore, it is very meaningful and necessary to carry out research on intelligent construction technology based on BIM technology. By applying BIM technology to the process of intelligent construction of structures, this paper intends to achieve six major objectives such as building performance analysis and parametric design of structures, and independently develop a BIM construction process management platform, which combines construction progress, quality, safety, cost and green construction through BIM technology for information management of projects, making it more convenient for owners and construction unit staff to software application, thus greatly improving the communication and use efficiency, and providing important guidance for the construction process control and progress control of the project.

Data-Driven Platform Framework for Digital Whole-Process Expressway Construction Management.

To increase the speed and efficiency of expressways construction, information management is being gradually introduced into the construction process. However, progress is limited due to the complexity of expressway engineering and application limitations of information technology. Design and delivery are still dominated by paper files, and the management of test and inspection data is still relatively extensive. Research to date into digital expressway construction has been piecemeal and fragmented with a lack of research related to the whole construction process and a data-centric information management system yet to be realized. In response, through literature research and semi-structured interviews, the framework of a data-driven digital whole-process highway construction management platform was determined. A whole process management platform was established according to the framework, and the functional application of the proposed platform was explained through a case. The framework is proposed from the perspective of the whole process of collaborative sharing., which provides a new way of thinking to solve the problems existing in the current field of expressway construction whole-process management. It also provides data-centric management, electronic design and delivery, a refined workflow, and an efficient management process.

The Research on Enterprise Process Management Based on ARIS

In order to strength the value of process management, Group company launches the process management and information system improvement, aiming to define the responsibility of each position and department, and indicate the process points of risk control as well as related institution, organization responsibility and control standard in a graphical way, by which to connect institutional procedure and totally change the previous method of program management. Therefore, a project team was built to present a long-term stable process management system applying to ARIS process management platform. The system was requested to express the all businesses macroscopically and detail all job specifications in microscopically. An area of Group Company was selected to be researched including the process, internal control and institutional procedure. Finally, the process management platform based on ARIS was built, and Group Company achieved significant value in process management include sharing, integration, specification, dynamic, clear control etc.

Experimental application of Business Process Management technology to manage clinical pathways: a pediatric kidney transplantation follow up case

BackgroundTo test the application of Business Process Management technology to manage clinical pathways, using a pediatric kidney transplantation as case study, and to identify the benefits obtained from using this technology.MethodsUsing a Business Process Management platform, we implemented a specific application to manage the clinical pathway of pediatric patients, and monitored the activities of the coordinator in charge of the case management during a 6-month period (from June 2015 to November 2015) using two methodologies: the traditional procedure and the one under study.ResultsThe application helped physicians and nurses to optimize the amount of time and resources devoted to management purposes. In particular, time reduction was close to 60%. In addition, the reduction of data duplication, the integrated event management and the efficient data collection improved the quality of the service.ConclusionsThe use of Business Process Management technology, usually related to well-defined processes with high management costs, is an established procedure in multiple environments; its use in healthcare, however, is innovative. The use of already accepted clinical pathways is known to improve outcomes. The combination of these two techniques, well established in their respective areas of application, could represent a revolution in clinical pathway management. The study has demonstrated that the use of this technology in a clinical environment, using a proper architecture and identifying a well-defined process, leads to real benefits in terms of resources optimization and quality improvement.

Manufacturing knowledge management based on STEP-NC standard: a Closed-Loop Manufacturing approach

The paper presents a proposal to ensure Closed-Loop Manufacturing from CNC machines to CAM systems. The main goal is to manage knowledge from the CNC machine and to reuse it in the CAM system. This proposal aims to help CAM programmers for programming new machining sequences by choosing the best CNC machines parameters. The main contribution of this paper focuses on how to provide guidelines extracted from past CNC programs to the CAM programme for future cases. Although STEP-NC standard enhances bidirectional exchanges in the digital chain, from CAD systems to CNC machines, it does not allow the management of manufacturing knowledge. To achieve the information feedback from CNC machine to CAM system, Closed-Loop Manufacturing approach sets up a manufacturing loop using PLM systems supported by OntoSTEP-NC – an ontology based on STEP-NC. Centred on the Manufacturing Process Management platform Closed-Loop Manufacturing is a three-step process: (1) capitalisation of cutting parameters, the manufacturing features and the material to fill the Manufacturing Process Management database, (2) validation of last machining sequences and (3) manufacturing feature recognition to have the most relevant information integration from the Manufacturing Process Management in the CAM programming stage.

Knowledge Management Platform for Online Training

In our rapidly changing world where technology is continuingly being updated and altered, the learning process should (must) be continual as well. To ensure the highest quality of work performance, there are three requirements: 1) clearly structured learning processes; 2) well-organized and structured learning; and 3) knowledge and skill pools. These are especially necessary for novel and rapidly changing technologies such as online engineering. This paper will present an implementation option of how to structure remote labs knowledge using PROMIS®, a knowledge and process management platform.

The Design of Operation and Maintenance Management System about IT Platform Based on Tivoli

At present, many domestic industries don’t have perfect operation and maintenance management systems for their IT platform. Most of the daily maintenance work is passive response after the problem occurred rather than discovery in advance, which will bring the potential risks to IT system running smoothly. Therefore it is necessary to monitor and manage the existing IT core equipment, to improve the security and stability of the core production and enhance the satisfaction of business department. In addition, through the establishment of an association between centralized monitoring and process management platform, the system standardizes the operational work, and improves work efficiency.Maintenance management system based on Tivoli[1] is mainly to complete the monitoring and management of the IT infrastructure, used in finance, electric power, chemical and other industries, which includes room infrastructure, storage, networks, systems, databases and middleware. On one hand, the system centralizes event management platform integrates events from various aspects of the IT infrastructure, takes a rich deal and then provides intuitive monitoring for operational management. Moreover it integrates process management platform so as to complete creating work orders, processing and other operations. On the other hand, the system will integrate the monitoring results of existing business into the monitoring interface, and implements IT knowledge sharing.

Proposals for the integration of interactive dashboards in business process monitoring to support resources allocation decisions

Most commonly used business process management systems are focused on the control-flow management. Regarding resource management, the modelling languages mainly focus on role-defined human resources allocation. At run-time, the resource allocation is managed at case level. To answer a need for more global resource management capabilities, we propose the integration of interactive dashboards in a resource-aware business process management platform. This framework, associated with a formal design methodology, offers global views on resource occupation and aims to enhance decision support regarding both human and non-human resource management at run-time.

Design and Implementation of ARIS Methodology-Based Process Modeling and Management Platform

Design and Implementation of ARIS Methodology-Based Process Modeling and Management Platform

Testing Event-Driven Business Processes

Today’s business climate requires to constantly evolve IT strategies for responding to new opportunities or threats. While the fundamentals of IT — reliability, availability, security and manageability — are still crucial, rapid results are mandatory for business success. These business challenges can be solved by acting with agility – striking the proper balance between the introduction of leading-edge technology and the pragmatic application of IT. In this paper, we introduce a testing framework for business solutions dealing with complex and dynamic IT environments. Our framework enables a test-driven development and adaptation of business processes in order to implement flexible and reliable business solutions. We compare our testing framework with model-driven development approaches and show how we applied it to an event-driven process management platform called SARI (Sense And Respond Infrastructure).