A Product Oriented Modelling Concept: Holons for systems synchronisation and interoperability

Salah Baïna (1) , Hervé Panetto (1) , Khalid Benali (2)

1 CRAN - Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy
2 ECOO - Environment for cooperation

Nowadays, enterprises are confronted to growing needs for traceability, product genealogy and product life cycle management. To meet those needs, the enterprise and applications in the enterprise environment have to manage flows of information that relate to flows of material and that are managed in shop floor level. Nevertheless, throughout product lifecycle coordination needs to be established between reality in the physical world (physical view) and the virtual world handled by manufacturing information systems (informational view). This paper presents the “Holon” modelling concept as a means for the synchronisation of both physical view and informational views. Afterwards, we show how the concept of holon can play a major role in ensuring interoperability in the enterprise context.

Mots clés: Process Modelling; Models Synchronisation; Manufacturing Systems; Enterprise Integration; Systems Interoperability; Model Driven Architecture; Models Mapping

Domaines: Recherche d'information [cs.IR]; Autre

Salah Baïna, Hervé Panetto, Khalid Benali. A Product Oriented Modelling Concept: Holons for systems synchronisation and interoperability. 8th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, ICEIS'2006, May 2006, Paphos, Cyprus. ⟨hal-00082038⟩