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K. Pfadenhauer, B. Kittl:
"Modeling the shop floor for a SOA with UML";
Talk: 1st International Conference on Enterprise Systems and Accounting, Thessaloniki; 09-03-2004 - 09-04-2004; in: "Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Enterprise Systems and Accountimg", (2004), 17 pages.

In our opinion two powerful concepts originating in the software engineering environment will change the way of thinking about business processes in the enterprise: SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) and MDA (Model Driven Architecture). Summing them up we can speak of a Model Driven Service Architecture. This concept is especially relevant for the shop floor environment in the manufacturing industry, where one can find fast changing conditions concerning both the architecture itself (like new IT systems or NC-machines) and the processes which emerge, change and disappear (e.g. new production processes) to achieve the goal of “agile manufacturing”. Standard information systems which try to narrow the gap between management level (typically an ERP system) and field level (e.g. machine control) have proven to be too complex and inflexible for coping with this. With SOA, which allows coarse-grained interaction in a distributed computing environment, and MDA, which postulates a vital conjunction between system modeling and architecture, or rather process design, one has now the appropriate methodologies and techniques to manage and control not only the material and information, but also the accurate cost flow in such a complex and heterogeneous environment like the shop floor. The aim of this paper is to present our approach how to construct real-world shop floor management and control (SFMC) systems, starting with structural and behavioural models of the necessary services and their possible possessors with UML.

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