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Application of an Enterprise Modelling approach to deploy Systems Engineering processes in large organizations

Clémentine Cornu
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Jean-Marc Quiot
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François Irigoin

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Enterprise Modelling (EM) enables the representation of companies' activities, of their resources along with their roles and responsibilities in order to share the company's knowledge and support performance analysis. For this, EM promotes various concepts, techniques, frameworks, modelling languages and tools today widely used in companies. Currently, even a partial model of an enterprise constitutes a way to communicate, to share advices, to analyse and to make decisions. Therefore, EM appears to be a privileged tool to support any business change management. In a complementary way, Systems Engineering (SE) is a tried and tested methodological approach to design and test new products whatever their complexity or nature. Nowadays SE is considered in industry as a competitive and structured approach enabling a company to manage design activities and more generally to improve its capacity and ability to design complex systems efficiently. SE acts as a model-based engineering approach and promotes to this end a set of standardized collaborative processes, modelling languages and frameworks. Thus, when considering large companies designing complex systems such as a helicopter manufacturer, first it appears critical to be able to adapt processes proposed by SE standardization according to the business specific needs. This tailoring must be guided in order to consider the inherent complexity of the organization, the various human actors' profiles and skills, tools and stakeholders involved in the design of new products. As they all have to communicate and interact efficiently together their abilities and capacities to be interoperable i.e. to really work together should be analysed and improved accordingly before going further. Then, it appears necessary to prepare the company for the required changes, and to deploy in situ the adopted SE processes taking into account not only company's classical constrains and objectives but also the current level of interoperability of its elements. Finally, company managers must become able to control and adjust these processes from the cradle to the grave according to feedbacks from their stakeholders. To support all these activities, Enterprise Modelling (EM) provides several techniques, modelling languages, reference models and interoperability assessment methods which have been adapted and applied in this research work. The purpose of this article is threefold: 1) to provide a state of the art in interoperability, Systems Engineering (SE), and EM to illustrate how these disciplines are interrelated, to identify the needs they imply in the deployment, to discuss lacks in existing works considering these needs and thus to formulate how we aim to meet them, 2) to present an approach based on EM helping companies to lead changes required to apply SE principles and aiming to promote interoperability; and 3) to introduce the modelling environment proposed to support the approach including an ontology, an extension of BPMN 2.0 and software tools.
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hal-00839885 , version 1 (01-07-2013)

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Clémentine Cornu, Vincent Chapurlat, Jean-Marc Quiot, François Irigoin. Application of an Enterprise Modelling approach to deploy Systems Engineering processes in large organizations. 2012. ⟨hal-00839885⟩
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