Understanding enterprise modelling from product modelling

Abstract

As enterprise modelling is being applied at large scale, an emerging challenge is related to managing the variety of business process models and enterprise resource models. This trend in enterprise modelling follows a similar trend in product modelling. This paper reviews to what extent themes from con-® guration management in product modelling can be positioned in enterprise modelling. The principles of progeny, view and domain, hierarchy, life cycle and variants are transferred to enterprise modelling. New insights in enterprise model con® guration are derived from techniques for dealing with product variety, e.g. parametrized product modelling. An example of enterprise model con® guration by parameters is given.Ha n s Wo r t ma n n has been active in the development of logistics control systems since his graduation in 1974. He developed logistics control systems for Philips Components and he wrote a doctoral thesis on shop¯oor control systems in 1981. He is a professor in industrial information systems at Eindhoven University of Technology since 1986. He has been the project manager of the ESPRIT Basic Research Action 3143`Factory of the Future' . He is currently editor in chief of the international journal Computers in Industry. He is actively involved in many research projects together with Baan Company.

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“…The referred features indicate that EA frameworks are the consequence of the external paradigm. Thus, EA frameworks are mainly concerned with the high level view of interactions between enterprise processes and activities, information flows, organizational units, enterprise strategies and goals (Wortmann et al, 2001;Morkevicius et al, 2013).…”

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Reference Architectures as Knowledge Management Tools Guiding and Supporting Enterprise Engineering

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