Requirements Analysis

Abstract

Fundamentals and principles of the RTE and its application to manufacturing enterprises were introduced in Chap. 2. The main building blocks of an RTE (i.e., (vertical) integration, (process) automation, and individualization) have been discussed in general. The RTE has been motivated as an appropriate strategy to address business pressures (cf. Fig. 2.2). As a result, (manufacturing) enterprises strive for achieving celerity, agility, and information availability. As outlined in the introduction of this research work (cf. Fig. 1.1), the transmission of the RTE vision to manufacturing enterprises is affected by managerial, engineering, and information technological issues. Henceforth, problem perspectives, methodologies, and solution approaches of the management, engineering, and computer science community are elaborated in more depth. This presentation reveals the interdisciplinary character of the presented research work that is typical for many problems and methodologies presented by the ISR community. In addition, the application area for implementing/testing the presented research work is described. Thereby, from the perspective of philosophy of sciences, the slice of reality/universe of discourse is disclosed.