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In the current industrial environment of increasing competition in a globalised marketplace, businesses must strive to closely satisfy ever changing customer desires. Correspondingly, manufacturing systems need be more responsive to the evolution of business requirements and ensure that they directly support these changing demands. Enterprise modelling has contributed significantly to achieving these goals by providing a greater level of consistency between high level requirements definition and lower level system design. However, in order to be truly useful to businesses, enterprise models must be of sufficient detail and provide adequate scope to enable the models to be translated into workable business solutions. Additionally, the variety of available enterprise modelling methods and tools need to be positioned by a common framework, such that relationships between different modelling methods can be identified.
This paper introduces the work carried out at the MSI Research Institute at Loughborough University which aims to provide a toolset to support the lifecycle of enterprise modelling and to support model enactment through the provision of runtime control, resource allocation and information management. Additionally, the paper provides an example application of part of the toolset and concludes by positioning the toolset within the GERAM framework for enterprise modelling.
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Weston, R.H., Gilders, P.J. (1996). Enterprise engineering methods and tools which facilitate simulation, emulation and enactment via formal models. In: Bernus, P., Nemes, L. (eds) Modelling and Methodologies for Enterprise Integration. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34983-1_15
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