Business information modeling for process integration in the mold making industry

  • Authors:

  • Qianfu Ni;Wen Feng Lu;Prasad K. D. V. Yarlagadda;Xinguo Ming

  • Affiliations:

  • School of Engineering Systems, Queensland University of Technology, PO Box 2434, Brisbane, Q4001 Australia;Design Technology Institute/Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 119260, Singapore;School of Engineering Systems, Queensland University of Technology, PO Box 2434, Brisbane, Q4001 Australia;Institute of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 1954 Huashan Road, China 200030

  • Venue:
  • Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Driven by industrial needs and enabled by the latest information technology, enterprise integration has rapidly shifted from information integration to process integration for performance excellence in the entire business process. This paper reports on the modeling of a business information model which enables mold making companies to achieve business process integration. The needs of process integration in mold making companies are first highlighted. Typical mold making business processes are analyzed and four critical business processes to be integrated are identified. Further, a process-oriented business information model is proposed, which associates business information entities to meet the needs of all business processes. Based on the model, the integration of four critical business processes is investigated, which enables seamless information flows to streamline the business processes, maximize information sharing across the business processes and achieve the automation and concurrency of the business processes. Finally, the implementation and benefits to industry of the system derived from the developed information model is presented.