The specification and deployment of enterprise modelling and component-based system concepts to facilitate the distributed engineering of automotive manufacturing machines is reported in this paper. The main areas of research reported in the article cover(a) the design and prototype development of new forms of component-based engine assembly and transfer machines(b) life cycle engineering approaches that improve the change capability of component-based automotive machines and(c) the design and implementation of an engineering environment that enables distributed engineering teams to achieve (a) and (b).The concepts, approach and environment have been developed and are being formally assessed with reference to current practice within an ongoing engineering programme. A consortium of leading automotive companies is collaborating on the research project with the aim of producing a new range of engine products that will be used in various makes of vehicle around the globe.

Distributed engineering of manufacturing machines

Relationships between two approaches for planning manufacturing strategy: A strategic approach and a paradigmatic approach

In many companies, the business processes of logistics, accounting and human resources are unclear — or often even unknown. With the R/3 Reference Model, a tool is available to users that, taking variants (scenario examples) into consideration, clearly portrays business processes of the R/3 system.

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Process-Oriented Modeling and Analysis of Business Processes using the R/3 Reference Model

Despite the technological delay, public sector presents the necessity of disponibilization of the information for citizens and for government level to making decision, searching new technologies that attend these necessities. New models to treat information has been proposed, without, therefore, to consider specific structure of the public sector, as the financial resources and human resources absence; the government change and the volatilization of the administrative strategy. Some this models, too, are only preoccupied with the technological issue, by ignoring others issue intrinsic to the development and use of the information systems (IS) (user participation; organizational culture and others). This thesis proposes an Information Systems Architecture (ISA) model that considers specific aspects of the public sector as well characteristics of information systems development and use in this sector found in the literature and in the studies realized in informatic services Brazilian State public enterprises. The model proposed is based in the business, information technology (IT) and information systems integration and it was structured with five components: (a) Government structure (mission and organizational culture, Planning and government platform); (b) Public services (considered the “ business” of public structure, with the information for citizens, for top level and government administrative technical); (c) Information systems (by including the legacy systems and executives systems information); (d) Information technology (centered in investment policies and the government computational platforms – as micro-computer and mainframe relationship) and (e) Users (centered in the necessities for public – training, adaptation and use of the SI). The model proposed was submitted to validation from informatic services Brazilian State public enterprises. The results point out the relevance of the integrated vision of their components and they permit to stablish strategies for implantation of ISA model, in order to observing public sector specificities.

Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia de Produção Um Modelo de Arquitetura de Sistemas de Informação para o Setor Público: estudo em empresas estatais prestadoras de serviços de informática

K. Kosanke

Papers

CIM-OSA: architecture for enterprise integration—a report on current developments