Intelligent products: Agere versus Essere

  • Authors:

  • Paul Valckenaers;Bart Saint Germain;Paul Verstraete;Jan Van Belle; Hadeli;Hendrik Van Brussel

  • Affiliations:

  • K.U. Leuven, Mechanical Engineering Department, Celestijnenlaan 300 B, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium;K.U. Leuven, Mechanical Engineering Department, Celestijnenlaan 300 B, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium;K.U. Leuven, Mechanical Engineering Department, Celestijnenlaan 300 B, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium;K.U. Leuven, Mechanical Engineering Department, Celestijnenlaan 300 B, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium;K.U. Leuven, Mechanical Engineering Department, Celestijnenlaan 300 B, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium;K.U. Leuven, Mechanical Engineering Department, Celestijnenlaan 300 B, B-3001 Leuven, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • Computers in Industry
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The notion of an intelligent product places suitability for integration firmly on the research agenda. Indeed, this paradigm aims for coordination and integration on a scale that is unseen until today. Note that this applies particularly where it concerns the core businesses of companies. For that reason, this paper presents a novel concept, the intelligent being, as a vehicle to achieve suitability for integration. The concept is applied to intelligent product instances, intelligent product types and intelligent resources alike. The paper identifies: (1) which services and functionalities can be offered by intelligent beings, (2) what are suitable candidate intelligent beings, and what are not. The paper shows that intelligent beings can reflect a corresponding reality - a product - in its current, past and future states. It thus argues for a role of the intelligent being that is analogous to what maps contribute in navigation systems (and may become as important).