Sensing, Smart and Sustainable S^3 Enterprises: Principles, Goals and Rules

Abstract

Currently, traditional companies need of models, skills, processes and technologies to face the challenges imposed by the highly competitive market, which requires constant innovations. Through the concepts of detection and monitoring, intelligence and sustainability, Sensing, Smart and Sustainable (S^3) enterprises exert an important role in the digitization of strategies, decisions and operations, and are efficient to face the challenges intrinsic to the digital economy and intelligent manufacturing. Literature presents the need of development of methods and enterprise models that portray reality of the S^3 Enterprises. In this context, to facilitate the formalization of S^3 Enterprises and understand the dynamics of their operations, this paper aims to develop an enterprise model of such organizations. Through the For Enterprise Modeling method, the enterprise model documents the goals, business rules, processes and concepts of S^3 Enterprises. The contribution of this paper is the identification of guiding principles that allow companies interested in applying the S^3 concepts have a reference as base, once it has been mapped through perspectives of different domains of knowledge.