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This paper summarizes a vision of the challenges facing the so-called "Industry of the Future" as studied by the research community of the IFAC Coordinating Committee 5 on Manufacturing and Logistics Systems, which includes four Technical Committees (TC). Each TC brings its own vision and puts forward trends and issues important and relevant for future research. The analysis is performed on the enterprise-level topics with an interface too other relevant systems (e.g., supply chains). The vision developed might lead to the identification of new scientific control directions such as Industry 4.0 technology-enabled new production strategies that require highly customised supply network control, the creation of resilient enterprise to cope with risks, developments in management decision-support systems for the design, and scheduling and control of resilient and digital manufacturing networks, and collaborative control. Cobots, augmented reality and adaptable workstations are a few examples of how production and logistic systems are changing supporting the operator 4.0. Sustainable manufacturing techniques, such closed-loop supply chains, is another trend in this area. Due to increasing number of elements and systems, complex and heterogeneous enterprise systems need to be considered (e.g., for decision-making). These systems are heterogeneous and build by different stakeholders. To make use of these, an environment is needed that allows the integration of the systems forming a System-of-Systems (SoS). The changing environment requires models which adapt over time. Some of the adaptation is due to learning, other mechanisms include self-organisation by intelligent agents. In general, models and systems need to be modular and support modification and (self-)adaptation. An infrastructure is needed that supports loose coupling and evolving systems of systems. The vision of the overall contribution from the research community in manufacturing and logistics systems, over the next few years is to bring together researchers and practitioners presenting and discussing topics in modern manufacturing modelling, management and control in the emerging field of Industry 4.0-based resilient and innovative production SoS and supply networks.

Nowadays, business supply chains for the production of complex products or services are likely to involve a number of autonomous organizations. The competitive market requires that these supply chains are highly agile, effective and efficient. Agility and effectiveness are obtained by forming highly dynamic virtual enterprises within supplier networks. We call these instant virtual enterprises (IVEs). The required efficiency of creating and operating IVEs can only be obtained by automated support for design, setup and enactment of business processes within these IVEs. This process support involves the dynamic composition of local processes of network members into global processes at the IVE level. This functionality goes significantly beyond traditional approaches for interorganizational workflow management. The approach, architecture and technology required for this dynamic network process management in IVEs are outlined in this paper. We show how the developed approach is applied in the automotive industry in the context of the CrossWork IST project.

Document VersionPublisher's PDF, also known as Version of Record (includes final page, issue and volume numbers) Please check the document version of this publication:• A submitted manuscript is the author's version of the article upon submission and before peer-review. There can be important differences between the submitted version and the official published version of record. People interested in the research are advised to contact the author for the final version of the publication, or visit the DOI to the publisher's website.• The final author version and the galley proof are versions of the publication after peer review.• The final published version features the final layout of the paper including the volume, issue and page numbers. Link to publicationCitation for published version (APA): Grefen, P. W. P. J., Eshuis, H., Mehandjiev, N., Kouvas, G., & Weichhart, G. (2009). Internet-based support for process-oriented instant virtual enterprises. IEEE Internet Computing, 13(6), 65-73. DOI: 10.1109/MIC.2009 General rights Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights.• Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research.• You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain • You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal ? Take down policyIf you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. Paul Grefen and Rik Eshuis Eindhoven University of Technology Nikolay Mehandjiev University of Manchester Giorgos Kouvas Exodus Georg WeichhartJohannes Kepler Universität Linz I n the past, businesses often operated in stand-alone mode or relied on rather static networks of cooperating organizations. Today, competition has become fiercer, fueled by relatively recent developments such as the globalization of business, shortened timeto-market requirements, and increased market transparency. Products and services to be delivered to customers are, on one hand, quickly increasing in complexity and, on the other, subject to increasingly frequent modifications and replacements. To comply with these market settings, organizations must shift their priorities to flexibility and the ability to change if they want to survive. Therefore, dynamically established cooperation among organizations is becoming much more of a requirement to meet market demands.Accordingly, we've seen the emergence of new business models focused on new business abilities that rely on intensive collaboration between autonomous business entities based on dynamic partnering. We call this model the instant virtual enterprise (IVE) -a temporary business entity executi...

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Research work presented in this paper considers the contemporary Enterprise Information Systems (EIS) functional architecture and carries out the literature review of AI applications integrated in Customer Relationship Management, Supply Chain Management, Inventory and logistics, Production Planning and Scheduling, Finance and accounting, Product Lifecycle Management and Human Resources, with special attention to the manufacturing enterprises. As a review outcome, the enhanced capabilities are identified in each of those processes and proposed as AI services. AI-enablement is related to the capabilities of the enterprise to implement improved decision making or automation by using (a) Machine Learning (ML) models or (b) logicbased systems. It is a process of the enterprise transformation leading to the convergence of the 4 major disruptive technologies, namely Industrial Internet of Things (or Cyber-Physical Systems), Agent-based Distributed Systems, Cloud Computing and Artificial Intelligence (non-symbolic AI like Machine Learning, Neural Networks; symbolic AI like Reasoning and Logic/Model-based AI).

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