Manufacturing interoperability

Challenges of Knowledge and Information Management during New Product Introduction: Experiences from a Finnish Multinational Company

“…During the format conversions a great deal of data is often lost. A lot of effort, and thus money, is used to resolve such kind of interoperability issues in companies (Ray & Jones, 2006).…”

“…Only its explicit parts -information and data -can be formalized and saved. However, emerging semantic information systems utilizing ontologies aim to overcome this drawback by allowing at least some level of knowledge to be stored and shared (Ray & Jones, 2006). The vision of the Semantic Web is to augment the syntactic web so that resources are more easily interpreted by programs.…”

“…Multiple distributed IT systems caused several technical challenges in the case organization, the most important ones being the lack of linked information, as well as filtering and errors happening during format translations, which caused a lot of manual re-writing and searching for information. These challenges related to data format translations and interoperability issues between different systems are very common in companies and often mentioned in the literature (Lanz, 2010;Ray & Jones, 2006).…”

Monitoring Morphisms to Support Sustainable Interoperability of Enterprise Systems

“…Enterprises are concerned with interoperability between organisational units or business processes either within a large enterprise or within an enterprise network. The challenge lies in facilitating communication, cooperation, and coordination among these units and processes (Kotze & Neaga 2010), (Ray & Jones 2006). Because of these matters, this ability is gaining an important position in our days, since the organisations applications and software systems need to be interoperable in order to achieve seamless business across organisational boundaries.…”

“…However, besides the challenge of integration models from different disciplines, achieving that inside heterogeneous networks is still an ongoing challenge hindered by the fact that they are, intrinsically, composed by many distributed hardware platforms, software tools and ICT systems (Ray & Jones 2006). Such engineering models could be defined in different languages or semantics, thus morphisms are needed to describe and formalise the relations between them, and sustainability methodologies are needed to cope with market dynamics: manufacturing systems are constantly adapting to new market and customer requirements, thus answering the need to respond with faster and better quality production; new organizations are constantly entering and leaving networks, leading to a constant fluctuation and evolution of system models.…”