System of Enterprise-Systems Integration Issues: an Engineering Perspective

Gérard Morel (1) , Hervé Panetto (1) , Frédérique Mayer (2) , Jean-Philippe Auzelle (1)

1 CRAN - Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy
2 ERPI - Equipe de Recherche sur les Processus Innovatifs

Today's needs for more capable enterprise systems in a short timeframe is leading more organizations toward the integration of existing product-systems into broader intra-organizational enterprise-systems and their integration into inter-organizational systems of enterprise-systems. Although important R&D efforts lead to a general consensus that Enterprise Modeling and IT Systems Interoperability are keys to Enterprise Integration to align the human-intensive infrastructure with the information-intensive architecture, these integration issues are not handled well in industrial systems engineering practices. Bridging the gap from an integrated system to a system of interoperable systems for architecting such broader enterprise-systems or complex systems of enterprise-systems requires ‘system thinking' beyond ‘system process'. This survey paper discusses some key problems, trends and accomplishments for Enterprise Integration with a systemic approach before advocating the System of Systems (SoS) paradigm to explore some rationales and forecasts in research and engineering.

Mots clés: systems engineering; systems of systems; interoperability

Domaines: Ingénierie assistée par ordinateur

Gérard Morel, Hervé Panetto, Frédérique Mayer, Jean-Philippe Auzelle. System of Enterprise-Systems Integration Issues: an Engineering Perspective. IFAC Conference on Cost Effective Automation in Networked Product Development and Manufacturing, IFAC-CEA'07, Oct 2007, Monterrey, Mexico. pp.CDROM. ⟨hal-00168535⟩