Extended service integration: Towards "Manufacturing" SLA

Abstract

Market constant evolution towards more and more customisation and call for "product/service" increases to need of agile and lean organisations, making an heavy use of information and communication technologies. To bring the necessary openness, interoperability and agility features to the enterprises information systems, one can use fruitfully Service Oriented Architecture. Already used at a business level as a potential interoperable and integrating framework, this technology must be adapted to define manufacturing services and to take into account manufacturing constraints, namely time constraint and security integration. In this paper, we propose a global framework to define a "manufacturing service bus", paying a particular attention to the manufacturing service definition. We also show how mobile agents can be used to set dynamically monitoring systems. © 2007 International Federation for Information Processing.