Publikation
Vertical Integration of Decision-Relevant Production Information into IT systems of Manufacturing Companies
Tobias Gerber; Charlotta Johnsson
In: Theodor Borangiu; André Thomas; Damien Trentesaux. Service Orientation in Holonic and Multi Agent Manufacturing and Robotics. Chapter 10, Vol. 472, ISBN 978-3-642-35851-7, Springer, Heidelberg, 2013.
Zusammenfassung
Today’s global competition and rising prizes for resources force manufacturing companies to integrate and make use of various IT systems in their production environment. Those IT systems need to be directly connected with the manufacturing plants for to optimize the value added chain in all levels of the enterprise. The connection, that should be flexible, needs to be done in increasingly shorter time, resulting in fixed communication structures. Such inadequate connection of the business (strategic) and technical (operation) levels increases the planning and implementation effort dramatically due to shortened reconfiguration tasks. This paper examines a flexible communication architecture approach for a vertical integration of production process-relevant data, i.e., for closing the gap between the business and technical levels. The approach enables the transfer of information in form of key performance indicators. The key performance indicators will support decision-making processes in the manufacturing companies. To prove the feasibility of the vertical integration approach a prototype is implemented and evaluated in the SmartFactoryKL.