Towards an Extended Interoperability Systemic Approach for Dynamic Manufacturing Networks: Role and Assessment of PLMStandards

Abstract

Abstract. This paper aims at illustrating some limitations of the systemic approach when willing to ensure the interoperability of PLM solutions within a Dynamic Manufacturing Network (DMN), based on e-Business PLM standards and their implementations, being industrial processes, methods, applications or Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) solutions. Indeed, addressing interoperability challenges in such a complex digital business eco-system calls for a holistic approach based on the "system" paradigm. Setting this way, a part of our goal is to underline the limits and drawbacks of such an approach as interoperability brakes and to derive the issues that must be addressed in terms of research in order to remove them. This paper introduces a new approach in order to set up a test bed environment for PLM standards. The required and proposed approach considers a PLM standard not only as a technical solution, but above all as a strategic solution for which it is mandatory to support and enhance discussions between enterprise, product/system, processes, ICT architects and designers. The proposed approach -for analyzing and assessing the relevancy of PLM standards regarding their usage in specific business contexts -will be illustrated with a multi-layer modeling language. This language is used to model standards-based business collaboration scenarios and to model the test bed environment that will enable the execution/simulation of this scenario and the assessment of related standards implementations regarding the business needs of the scenario. The addressed case study is based on a data exchange scenario between a customer production order scheduler and a supplier production order executer using the ISA 95 standard. From this example, the interoperability issues related to DMN system of systems will be identified, for which accurate test based methods will be defined in future work.

PLM Standards Modelling for Enterprise Interoperability: A Manufacturing Case Study for ERP and MES Systems Integration Based on ISA-95

“…Also with this method, we can put in place the exchange protocols described in the documentation of the standard, we can define a validation properties for the implementation of the standard and we will construct a templates of the standard that can be exploited in various specific implementation scenarios. The test and the validation will be based on the generation of recommended practices, test processes with the integration of real applications and single test, all this to generate solutions which implement standards and which can be easily integrated [6] [7].…”

“…For this paper we first focused on the exchange of MBOMs and production schedules/orders from the IUT ERP system and the MES systems but as well on the exchange of production performance and production capability information from the MES systems to the IUT ERP system. 7 IUT Montreuil website : http://www.iut.univ-paris8.fr/ Fig. 8.…”

“…While different projects such as INTEROP [3] and ATHENA [4] has addressed the interoperability of enterprise applications relying on a common Application Interoperability Framework (AIF), our approach also relies on a federative interoperability framework defined by [2]. This framework defines a pragmatic methodology for preparing and building operational interoperability (as defined by System Of System Interoperability (SOSI) [5]) at an acceptable price for Dynamic Manufacturing Network (DMN) [6] [7].…”

A Federated Enterprise Architecture and MBSE Modeling Framework for Integrating Design Automation into a Global PLM Approach

“…the IMAGINE and SIP projects. The latter focuses on interoperability through the implementation and evaluation of PLM standards, but also proposes to use EA and ArchiMate to model standards-based business collaboration scenarios and to model the test bed environment that will enable the execution/simulation of this scenario [14]. The SIP project also considers standards and practices of both PLM and SE communities, since PLM and SE are closely related.…”

“…The SIP project also considers standards and practices of both PLM and SE communities, since PLM and SE are closely related. As stated in [14], although the scope of application of PLM is larger than the one covered by SE and a PLM strategy can be efficiently deployed being SE processes independent. Whereas ISO-15288, EIA-632 and IEEE-1220 are standards for SE process formalization, SysML has been established as a product data exchange standard for requirements and system architecture models.…”