Showing papers on "Enterprise systems engineering published in 2018"

A methodology to create a sensing, smart and sustainable manufacturing enterprise

Abstract: Next-generation manufacturing enterprises need to be sensing, smart and sustainable to be competitive: ‘sensing’ refers to context awareness at internal and external levels; ‘smart’ refers to knowledge-based organisations that adapt to changes and ‘sustainable’ refers to the ability to operate without damaging the environment, community or economy. Although technologies do exist to support the development of such enterprises, there is a need for methodologies that help in the entire enterprise engineering problem. This paper proposes a methodology, based on the principles of enterprise architecture, to design a sensing, smart and sustainable manufacturing enterprise. The methodology aims at adopting the best practices used in enterprise engineering while dealing with the relevant gaps. An analysis of the characteristics of the ‘Sensing, Smart and Sustainable Manufacturing Enterprise’ (S3-ME) is presented to understand the advantages of using the proposed methodology. The methodology comprises the instanti...

Architectural Coordination of Enterprise Transformation

Abstract: Architectural coordination of enterprise transformation (ACET) integrates and aggregates local information and provides different viewpoints, such as financial, structural, or skill perspectives to the respective stakeholder groups, with the aim of creating a consensus and shared understanding of an enterprise transformation among the stakeholders. Its core purpose is to inform decision-makers with both local and enterprise-wide concerns so that the overall transformation goals can be successfully pursued, i.e. reducing inconsistencies and including local decisions in the overarching goals. This book consists of three major parts, framed by an introduction and a summary. To enable readers to gain a better understanding of the issues involved in real-world enterprise transformations as well as the possible role of architectural coordination and the associated challenges, Part I provides an analysis of status quo of corporate ACET practice. Part II then continues with an exploration of the challenges facing ACET from a theoretical perspective. Based on these challenges, Part III then presents a collection of components for a possible design theory for ACET. Instead of an integrated method, this collection of components constitutes method fragments that can be arranged in different ways depending on the perspective taken, the actual enterprise architecture management approach, the enterprise transformation type and the transformation’s context.

Intelligent collaborative system and service in value network for enterprise computing

Abstract: Recently, competitive environment for enterprise computing is being mixed with increased uncertainty of supply and demand, globalised markets, shortening of product’s life cycle, rapid change of pr...

Beyond ERP systems: an outline of self-referential enterprise systems

Abstract: While it is widely agreed that current enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems cannot evolve much further, it is the question how future enterprise systems will look like. To approach an answer to this question, this report provides at first an analysis of essential high level requirements and their implications. Against this background, a conception of future enterprise systems referred to as self‐referential enterprise systems (SRES) is presented. It is characterized by an elaborate conceptual foundation, which is based on multi‐perspective enterprise models. These models enable enterprise software to not only refer to their conceptual foundation, but also to the concepts that characterize the context they are embedded in. In order to promote cross‐organizational integration and high‐level reuse, it is suggested to develop reference models, which provide design blueprints for an entire range of organizations. While the development of reference models and the realization of corresponding SRES is a very attractive research vision, it overextends the resources of single research institutions by far. It also requires involving prospective users. To cope with these challenges, the paper suggests a conception of collaborative development of open reference models. It concludes with the description of the recently launched “Open Model” initiative that is aimed at promoting the joint development of large conceptual models which could serve as a foundation of future SRES.

Lessons Learned From Evaluating an Enterprise Modeling Methodology

Abstract: Many of the challenges that the society faces today are enterprise problems. Enterprise systems consist of technological, organizational, and social elements where there is no locus of control. Due to the complex nature of enterprise systems, they are particularly difficult to model and analyze in support of policy analysis. There is a need for accessible methods and approaches to aid those tasked with modeling enterprise problems. To that end, we considered an enterprise modeling methodology that emphasizes a layered view of an enterprise system and evaluated it by applying it to a case study on the intrusion of counterfeit parts in a supply chain. We conclude that the utility of the methodology does not lie in making specific predictions as there are many ways to accomplish that. Rather, the methodology shows promise for two applications: First, integrating diverse expert knowledge and data and communicating that to stakeholders and, second, searching for counter-intuitive results or unintended consequences of a policy option.

An Enterprise Systems Engineering Approach to Electrification: Looking at the Bigger Picture Through Life-Cycle Analysis of Community Microgrids: A Case Study in Papua New Guinea

Abstract: Electrification of remote communities worldwide represents a key necessity for sustainable development and advancement of the 17 United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Additionally, it is a prerequisite to the creation of numerous other infrastructure and economic systems, including agriculture, health care, education, clean water, sanitation, transportation, and telecommunications. With over 1 billion people still lacking access to electricity, finding new methods to provide safe, clean, reliable, and affordable energy to off-grid communities deserves to be a dynamic area of research. This is the reason that so many papers have been written on the design, optimization, and construction of electrification microgrids.

Efficiency-Driven Enterprise Design: A Synthesis of Studies

Abstract: Enterprise design decisions include choosing among operational strategies, allocating scarce resources, and coordinating actions toward common goals, among others. In this paper, we explore how the concepts and applications of the efficiency performance measurement paradigm can be used to inform enterprise design. Up to date, efficiency performance measurement has been mainly used to describe how well an enterprise has performed, i.e., answering “what happened” via an ex post evaluation. However, informing enterprises on “what might happen” when making changes, i.e., an ex ante evaluation, has received less attention. To address this gap, we synthetize findings pertaining to enterprise design from the organizational design, enterprise systems engineering, and efficiency performance measurement literatures. The synthesis allows us to identify the integrative role that the efficiency performance measurement paradigm plays in informing enterprise transformation decisions. We illustrate this role by providing a case study of an enterprise dealing with design decisions. Our research provides exploratory evidence, for managerial stakeholders, about the ability of the efficiency performance measurement paradigm to answer how well an enterprise could perform if certain design decisions are made.

Towards Devising an Architectural Framework for Enterprise Operating Systems

Abstract: One often observes that despite the efforts involved on information systems development, many times the achieved solutions do not comply well with the needs of the organization and lack in change agility to face new emerging requirements. This paper conceptualizes about an architectural framework specifically designed for explaining and representing the working environment of enterprise operating systems (EOS) and non-EOS information systems (IS) that depend on it. With these concerns in mind, the goal of EOS is to capture and control all phenomena that occur in an organization and then to provide all the required data for all IS for that organization. Using a computer engineering metaphor, this paper defines the theoretical foundations, and the methodology to design and implement an operating system for organizations. To achieve this, EOS is a model-driven dynamically. The models are based on domain ontology with C4-ness qualities and expressed in ontological language. It will be shown that the theory of enterprise ontology and the DEMO methodology provide a high degree of ontological appropriateness for this domain. This paper, outline a framework with its foundations, concepts, principles and stratification of IS, which is a radical new approach, useful to discussion this solution among the practitioners. A methodology to apply this architectural framework is discussed using a professional production case management.

The Agile Systems Framework: Enterprise Content Management Case

Abstract: In this paper, the researchers propose an agile systems framework (ASF) method to obtain quantitative measurements of a system’s inherent agility. Agility is defined as the ability of a system to quickly adapt and respond to change. The measurement of agility for information technology systems can help enterprises future-proof their systems. The researchers demonstrate the feasibility of the ASF by showing that interoperability, the ability of two systems to interact effectively (Beesemyer, Empirically characterizing evolvability and changeability in engineering systems, 2012), is positively related to agility. The design of the experiment to test this hypothesis is in an enterprise content management (ECM) case, but the ASF can be applied to different types of systems. The experiment consists of two tests on an ECM system, with the independent variable being the level of interoperability (one test is low interoperability and the other is high interoperability) and the dependent variable being the level of agility measured with the ASF. The experiment provides support for the hypothesis, with the level of agility increasing as the level of interoperability is increased, and shows the feasibility of the Framework. A survey was used to gather expert opinion on the importance of certain criteria of agility used in the ASF, so that the framework accurately measures agility. Further research can test the relationship of agility to other aspects of a system and include more criteria of agility.

Methodology of the Enterprise Architecture creating and the role of the Enterprise Architecture in rural development.

Abstract: This contribution deals with the concept of the Enterprise Architecture, the practice that tries to describe and control an organization structure, processes, applications, systems and technology infrastructure, software components, services and roles in enterprise. it links the goals, resources and rule in enterprise with the processes and activities in business organization and creates a large document for planning, investing and the enterprise information strategy. The aim of the article is the methodological approach, the common method for development of the Enterprise Architecture document. What is important in this document? All business managers must make sense of the architecture to optimize their activities according to the specific business goals and to develop a strategy for the innovation and for the introduction improvements in the current business situation and into the future. The Enterprise Architecture can serve as a basis of business knowledge. The description principles should be applied in every area of industry also in the czech agriculture area. The conclusions of the paper evaluate the knowledge context and discuss the necessity of establishing the Enterprise Architecture in

Non-intrusive transaction aware filtering during enterprise application modernization

Abstract: Enterprise modernization refers to enhancing the capability of the existing application to meet the business demands. This modernization can lead to vast quantities of data generated from infrastructure, channels, database and other roots of computing involved which leads to the quantity of information generated. The data getting generated impact the resources called for these sorts of computing as it is directly proportional to recurring computing cost model and incurs a huge cost for enterprise opting for enterprise modernization. In this paper, we suggest a method to place the relevant transaction filtering of information in the context of enterprise modernization. This is answered by presenting the non-intrusive transaction aware filtering framework to get just the relevant information needed to further optimize the computing resources. Simulation and experimental results show an improvement in network, memory, throughput, CPU utilization compared against the non-transaction aware filtering during various load conditions.

Always-On Enterprise Information Systems: The Concept, Attributes, and Implementation Drivers

Abstract: Modern businesses today tend to “keep business in business” and stay “always-on”. Not only businesses, most organizations in today’s digital age seek for such a kind of information infrastructure that is based on the “continuous computing” platform (Bajgoric, 2005, 2008) which is supported by “always-on” enterprise information system (Bajgoric, 2006, 2010). Such an information system provides, theoretically, an IT platform for a “%100” business continuance or “always-on” business. However, achieving a “%100 uptime” or “zero downtime” is not an easy task, therefore, most organizations tend to reach more realistic, but still high availability ratios in terms of “number of nines”, e.g. 99,999% availability, or “near-zero downtimes”, in terms of “five minutes per year” downtime. This kind of requirement is valid for all today’ Always-On Enterprise Information Systems: The Concept, Attributes, and Implementation Drivers

Efficiency Driven Socio-Technical System Design

Abstract: In this paper we advocate that the efficiency measurement paradigm could transition from an evaluation-to-rank towards an evaluation-to-design paradigm. We suggest that this transition can inform the design of socio-technical systems. In order to achieve this type of design would require the consideration of issues associated with organizational design, enterprise systems engineering along with system complexity. We recommend that the required research be conducted within inter- or trans-disciplinary context with all of their benefits and challenges to achieve high quality application results. We describe five illustrations conducted over the years at Virginia Tech’s System Performance Laboratory. We present these illustrations by describing the societal or socio-technical system needs that drove the research, the research constraints and considerations, the stakeholders affected by the research, the approach or approaches used, the feedback to theory and open modeling issues, and a description of societal and socio-technical system impacts. We describe the potential of a complex adaptive systems approach as an enabler of socio-technical system design and conclude with a series of open-ended questions and issues.