Edited by
Martin Zelm
Frank-Walter Jaekel
Guy Doumeingts
Martin Wollschlaeger
First published 2018 in Great Britain and the United States by ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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The works in this book stem from research presented during 11 workshops and a doctrol symposium which were organized in the frame of the International Conference on Enterprise Interoperability (I-ESA 2018).
Most of the papers presented in this book originate from European or national research projects. One major goal of the I-ESA workshops is the exchange of knowledge to encourage an active debate of results between the presenters and the audience, which could inspire further research. The results of the discussions are reflected in the papers finalized after the conference and documented in the workshop reports.
With the conference subtitle “Smart services and business impact of enterprise interoperability”, the workshops elaborate results of research and industry transfer in the area of smart service-related technologies like next generation Internet, IoT, cloud-based platforms, artificial intelligence and advanced enterprise modeling for future manufacturing.
The I-ESA workshops were organized in three tracks, each track moving from research-oriented topics of wider scope towards particular application topics focusing on real benefits for industry.
Track A was composed of four workshops. The first workshop addressed embedded intelligence in manufacturing decision support, and elaborated on the business requirements of ICT solutions for directed trans-disciplinary information and knowledge-sharing capability. The second workshop elaborated the business impact of application use cases of enterprise interoperability (EI). In the third workshop, recent research on an operating system for virtual factory (vf-OS) was presented. The last workshop addressed issues in EI standardization management.
Track B consisted of four workshops. The first two workshops elaborated on smart services to enable semantic interoperability for industrial Big Data platforms to support digital transformation. Included was a position paper regarding the European Big Data Value Association for Smart Manufacturing Industry. The last two workshops addressed methodologies for predictive maintenance in Industry 4.0 and issues of higher education.
Track C was composed of three workshops. The first workshop focused on modeling and simulation for the design of advanced manufacturing systems including an ontology for enterprise modeling and the presentation of the first implementation of a new architecture, MDSEA for Industrie 4.0. The second workshop addressed methods and tools for product service systems (PSS) by proposing an innovation process and the use of a tool called the product service concept tree. The third workshop provided an outlook of the research into how interoperability solutions for crisis management could increase the resilience of smart cities.
The doctoral symposium presented the results of three dissertations in the field of flexible shop floor management. The results concern information systems for network organisations in the context of enterprise interoperability. The goal of the symposium was to discuss interactively the findings, issues or ideas between the participating PhD students and experienced participants from research and industry.
We would like to acknowledge the professional contribution of Andrea Koch to organize the papers for the delivery to the publisher.
Markets, stakeholders and information technologies will constantly evolve, making it challenging for a single organization to keep up with the competition. Modern production enterprises are responding to this challenge with Industries 4.0 and interoperable solutions in collaborative networks to become more reactive and innovative in both their organization and their production systems.
The International Conference on Enterprise Interoperability (I-ESA 2018) presented interoperable solutions for enterprises from the viewpoints of research and innovation (business impact). The workshops addressed Smart Services and new technologies like next generation internet (Internet of Things, cloud-based platforms, and artificial intelligence) applied in future manufacturing systems using digital transformation.
This book contains work that stemmed from 11 workshops and a doctoral symposium. One particular method used for each workshop was to exchange knowledge about actual research and applications and to interactively discuss issues and new ideas between the presenters and the audience of experts from research and industry.
Martin ZELM
Frank-Walter JAEKEL
Guy DOUMEINGTS
Martin WOLLSCHLAEGER
August 2018