The Status Quo of Process Mining in the Industrial Sector

Abstract

Since process mining started to reveal the potential of event logs, it has been applied in various process settings ranging from healthcare to production. Every single setting poses its challenges to process analysts who want to apply process mining. The present paper aims at minimizing such challenges for enterprises in the industrial sector by providing a coherent overview of existing cases. Our systematic literature review relates each production form and layout from existing case studies to the applied process mining type. Further, we use Porter's Value Chain to distinguish operations from other primary and support activities in production. We present the application of process mining, particularly for the production process and the primary activities other than the operations. The results indicate that process mining fits best with cellular production layouts with batch or line production processes.