An integration test-bed system for supply chain management
Proceedings of the 30th conference on Winter simulation
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Business process models are often useful to both information system and management in manufacturing enterprises. Many models are proposed to describe activities in manufacturing operations. Some of them describe manufacturing activity models in CIM system architecture[1-5]. These models combine business process models with information system infrastructure, and represents business activities in hierarchical function-oriented modeling approaches.Recently, the benefits of object-oriented (OO) modeling technologies are often discussed to information/operations management. Many OO models are proposed for manufacturing enterprise information systems. Majority of them are product models for concurrent engineering focused on CAD/CAM system [6,7], or operations models of real time shop-floor control and scheduling systems [8-10]. There are also modeling researches focused on Production Planning and Control (PPC) applications considering resource management in factory. These works propose OO manufacturing enterprise models [11], or BOM data model[12]. These are challenging works, but they do not include various factory management operations such as planning, ordering, logistics, administrations, maintenance, customer service, and others. Implementation of manufacturing enterprise information models requires modeling of the business operations in factory management. SEMATECH model is a good example such as the above approach, but, its business domain is focus on semiconductor manufacturing system[13]A modeling strategy is required to implement a general factory business process model. This paper describes a generic modeling strategy and a methodology through an implementation of a novel OO business process model.