Modern manufacturing systems must be engineered as any other complex systems, especially in the context of their integration. The book first presents the all-embracing concept of the Extended Enterprise as way of inter-enterprise integration. It then focusses on Enterprise Engineering methods and tools to address intra-enterprise integration using a model-based approach. Business process modelling and re-engineering isssues are particularly discussed and tools presented. Formal specification and Petri net-based analysis methods for manufacturing systems complete the set of tools for Enterprise Engineering. Coordination and integration issues of manufacturing systems and their business processes are then covered and examples of integration platforms presented. Finally, standardization and pre-standardization issues related to enterprise modelling and integration conclude the book.

Inhalt
1 The dimensions of integrated manufacturing systems engineering.- 2 Industry requirements and associated research issues in the Extended Enterprise.- 3 Enterprise engineering with CIMOSA application at FIAT.- 4 Making CIMOSA operational.- 5 Rapid prototyping of integrated manufacturing systems by accomplishing model-enactment.- 6 MMS virtual manufacturing devices generation: the Paris subway example.- 7 Process-oriented order processing a new method for business process reengineering.- 8 Object-oriented modelling and analysis of business processes.- 9 Using a formal declarative language for specifying requirements modelled in CIMOSA.- 10 Specification environment for multi-agent systems based on anonymous communications in the CIM context.- 11 Interflow systems for manufacturing: concepts and a construction.- 12 A control-oriented dynamic model of discrete manufacturing systems.- 13 A new tool for modular modelling: the generalised and synchronised stochastic Petri nets.- 14 Petri net modelling for dynamic process planning.- 15 Coordination approaches for CIM.- 16 Integration of industrial applications: the CCE-CNMA approach.- 17 A software engineering paradigm as a basis for enterprise integration in (multi-) client/server environments.- 18 An information sharing platform for concurrent engineering.- 19 Development of GERAM, a generic enterprise reference architecture and enterprise integration methodology.- 20 CEN activities on enterprise modelling and enterprise model execution and integration services.- Index of contributors.- Keyword index.