An approach to a pattern for business process management and deployment of software engineering for small companies in a crossplatform era

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Fernandez-Garcia ◽  
Luis Iribarne ◽  
Javier Criado ◽  
Jesus Vallecillos
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Business Process ◽  
Business Process Management ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Small Companies

scholarly journals SAP Speaks PDDL: Exploiting a Software-Engineering Model for Planning in Business Process Management

2012 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 587-632 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Hoffmann ◽  
I. Weber ◽  
F. M. Kraft
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Business Process ◽  
Business Process Management ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Suitable Model ◽  
Model Based ◽  
Sequencing Problems ◽  
Action Sequencing

Planning is concerned with the automated solution of action sequencing problems described in declarative languages giving the action preconditions and effects. One important application area for such technology is the creation of new processes in Business Process Management (BPM), which is essential in an ever more dynamic business environment. A major obstacle for the application of Planning in this area lies in the modeling. Obtaining a suitable model to plan with -- ideally a description in PDDL, the most commonly used planning language -- is often prohibitively complicated and/or costly. Our core observation in this work is that this problem can be ameliorated by leveraging synergies with model-based software development. Our application at SAP, one of the leading vendors of enterprise software, demonstrates that even one-to-one model re-use is possible. The model in question is called Status and Action Management (SAM). It describes the behavior of Business Objects (BO), i.e., large-scale data structures, at a level of abstraction corresponding to the language of business experts. SAM covers more than 400 kinds of BOs, each of which is described in terms of a set of status variables and how their values are required for, and affected by, processing steps (actions) that are atomic from a business perspective. SAM was developed by SAP as part of a major model-based software engineering effort. We show herein that one can use this same model for planning, thus obtaining a BPM planning application that incurs no modeling overhead at all. We compile SAM into a variant of PDDL, and adapt an off-the-shelf planner to solve this kind of problem. Thanks to the resulting technology, business experts may create new processes simply by specifying the desired behavior in terms of status variable value changes: effectively, by describing the process in their own language.

Rola modelu CMMI w organizacjach procesocentrycznych

2013 ◽  
pp. 25-30
Author(s):  
Arkadiusz Jurczuk
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Business Process Management ◽  
Process Management

W artykule przedstawiono istotę i zasady oceny dojrzałości procesowej przedsiębiorstw oraz rolę modeli dojrzałości w podnoszeniu efektywności organizacji w kontekście paradygmatu Business Process Management. Zasadniczym celem poznawczym artykułu jest określenie zasad oceny dojrzałości według modelu CMMI oraz prezentacja nakładów i efektów wynikających z wdrożenia tego modelu. Wskazano także czynniki determinujące sukces wdrożenia modeli dojrzałości w praktyce biznesowej. (abstrakt oryginalny)

scholarly journals The Role of Industry 4.0 and BPMN in the Arise of Condition-Based and Predictive Maintenance: A Case Study in the Automotive Industry

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 3438
Author(s):  
Jorge Fernandes ◽  
João Reis ◽  
Nuno Melão ◽  
Leonor Teixeira ◽  
Marlene Amorim
Keyword(s):  
Business Process ◽  
Automotive Industry ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Business Process Management ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Predictive Maintenance ◽  
The Evolution Of Industry

This article addresses the evolution of Industry 4.0 (I4.0) in the automotive industry, exploring its contribution to a shift in the maintenance paradigm. To this end, we firstly present the concepts of predictive maintenance (PdM), condition-based maintenance (CBM), and their applications to increase awareness of why and how these concepts are revolutionizing the automotive industry. Then, we introduce the business process management (BPM) and business process model and notation (BPMN) methodologies, as well as their relationship with maintenance. Finally, we present the case study of the Renault Cacia, which is developing and implementing the concepts mentioned above.

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