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Business Process Management Systems to Optimize Manufacturing--Christian Will
Business Process Management Systems to Optimize Manufacturing--Christian Will
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This paper introduces key concepts behind a manufacturing execution system built on a process-centric software architecture designed to meet these challenges. After introducing the concept of business process management (BPM)
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But the complexity of systems grew with the advent of XML and Web services, the shift toward componentizing application functionality into service- oriented architectures, and the seemingly endless possibilities of transforming them into solutions. Whereas HTML or Hyper Text Markup Language served the first-generation of the Internet well by enabling the creation of Web pages and other content to be displayed in a Web browser, XML, or the Extensible Markup Language, brought on the next generation by introducing a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable.
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With a solid foundation as an organizational development method predicated on evolution, not revolution, BPM advocates knew they had to rely on current IT infrastructures for years to come; IT budgets were severely constrained after 2000 and many companies had yet to show a return on investment on their huge ERP investments. From Enterprise Resource Planning to Business Process Management The search for technologies that could integrate with existing systems, shape functionality to the needs of the as-is environment, support global coordination with local operations within the factories, and serve as the vehicle for monitoring performance and targeting process improvement, led to BPM (Figure 1)
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Recognizing that a generic BPM technology is not an application or a solution in a particular business context, the opportunity exists to further accelerate manufacturing excellence programs by preconfiguring and prepackaging many of the core elements needed for a particular industry. Such packages are integrated in the BPM software and contain a unified model of the business entities involved, a core set of fine-grained business services to accommodate the business entities, and a collection of one or more process fragments applicable to
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With BPM, intelligent behavior may be added to a single process controlling a work center or automated manufacturing cell, or an end-to-end chain of processes spanning the entire factory, enterprise, or value chain. An example of the former might be the highlighting of a particular sequence for processing work orders to meet competing objectives such as minimizing material consumption, maximizing machine utilization, or focusing on the most important customer.
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Opportunities for BPM Technology Connecting the Virtual and the Real: The Role of Simulation As market dynamics dictate shorter product life cycles, increasingly complex supply chains, and rising costs to bring products to market, simulation may be useful to replace physical prototyping of new product introductions and manufacturing processes. While the cost to physically prototype and test new products and processes increases, at a minimum at the rate of inflation, the cost and capabilities of the virtual will continue to decrease.
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From Analytics to Big Data: Gaining Insights from Both Structured and Unstructured Data Analysis of the manufacturing history of a product to search for the root causes of a quality issue, or clues on how to improve production for a part, or any other pattern of interest requires the storage of large amounts of data. The leading database vendors on the market have done a great job of introducing relational database and business intelligence technologies that structure data in a suitable format for viewing and analysis.
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However, big data technologies have become both affordable and usable enough for the average organization and IT skillset. And the big software platform vendors are rushing to introduce, or have already introduced, search engine technologies that work with both unstructured and relational data stores (e.g., Microsoft's SharePoint FAST and Semantic Search, or Apache Lucene)
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Under human-interaction management is the ability to manage shared work queues and enable advanced visualization, individual and group collaboration, support for virtual communities, generating user experiences based on a user's role within the context of his current activity, the ability to show the on-line presence of users related to the current activities and initiate voice, messaging, and other forms of interactive communication, and managing off-line notifications to affected users -- also within the context of an active and managed process. Where the Future of BPM May Lead With BPM technologies generating billions of dollars annually in revenue, one can readily conclude that they pose a significant and growing threat to the market for traditional software development tools.
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