Using Systems of Systems Engineering to Improve the Integration of Enterprise-Control Systems

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

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

As the lifetime of many products (that is, goods or services) gets shorter, enterprises have to evolve their information system to account for changes in the internal and external business environment. Indeed, enterprises are using more and more software applications, such as APS, ERP, MES, and SCM, to deal with the increasing complexity of information flows. In this context, a product embedding information about itself and being able to communicate with its environment may be qualified as an “active product.” This new system may then be assimilated to a system-of-systems by gathering all enterprise systems, considered themselves as autonomous systems, together with the active product.

Mots clés: systems engineering; systems-of-systems; Integration; information system; interoperability; enterprise systems

Domaines: Ingénierie assistée par ordinateur

Jean-Philippe Auzelle, Gérard Morel, Hervé Panetto, Frédérique Mayer. Using Systems of Systems Engineering to Improve the Integration of Enterprise-Control Systems. INSIGHT - International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), 2008, 11 (3), pp.13-14. ⟨hal-00287810⟩