Requirements for Enterprise Model Execution and Integration Services

Abstract

Business drivers for manufacturing industry are generating new demands for flexible, extended, inter-operating information processes, and in turn for Information and Communication Technology to support them. Explicit modelling and other techniques may provide a solution, but themselves place requirements on the infrastructure that is needed to integrate model components.

Some progress has been made in the development of European and international standards, but a review of the present situation shows much remains to be done, both for the resolution of practical industrial concerns in developing and applying enterprise models and for creating specific technical standards, in particular for the Enterprise Model Execution and Integration Services (EMEIS) that are required to provide this integrating infrastructure.

Building on an evaluation of various approaches, European work has identified both general and manufacturing-specific requirements and proposals are made for an approach to meeting these requirements in the development of a European pre-standard for EMEIS.