Online monitoring and control of enterprise processes in manufacturing based on an event-driven architecture

Abstract

Manufacturing enterprises strive for improvements in their monitoring and control of enterprise processes (i.e., business and manufacturing processes) with intention to sustain competitive advantages, and achieve higher degree of flexibility and adaptability of enterprise processes. Hence in the current contribution, a framework based on event driven architecture is elaborated which can be employed to realize enterprise integration, and enhance online monitoring and control of enterprise processes. A process model is been presented that assists the introduction, configuration and implementation of the envisaged framework. The framework is composed of following components: data collection engine, data aggregation engine, process database, complex event processing engine, and process visualization clients. Finally, the framework has been validated in an industrial scenario. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.