Enterprise Engineering and Integration: Building International Consensus

International Projects.- AIT - Advanced Information Technology for Design and Manufacture (ESPRIT Project).- PRIMA - Process Industry Manufacturing Advantage Through Information Technology (ESPRIT Project).- NGMS - Next Generation Manufacturing Systems (IMS Project).- HMS - Holonic Manufacturing Systems Test Case (IMS Project).- NIIIP - The National Industrial Information Infrastructure Protocols (USA Project).- NGM - Next Generation Manufacturing - A Framework for Action (USA Project).- Closing Session.- Evolution in Enterprise Integration - The Consortium for Advanced Manufacturing.- Enterprise Engineering and Integration - Future Challenges.- II: Workshop Papers.- 1 Enterprise Engineering.- The Business Architect - The Concept of Enterprise Integration Revisited.- Balancing Between Integration and Distribution Paradigms: The Modeling Process of the European CMMS-IAMS Projects.- Enterprise Modeling and Integration - Towards Agile Manufacturing Systems.- 2 Enterprise Modeling - Principles and Fundamentals.- Proxy Possible Flow Semantics for Enterprise Formulae and Artefact Possible Lives Models.- Integrated Ontologies for Enterprise Modeling.- Defining an Ontology for Formal Requirements Engineering of Manufacturing Systems.- DME - Distributed Manufacturing Enterprise Modeling, Towards an Ontological Approach.- 3 Enterprise Modeling - Methodologies.- Integrated Business Process Modeling, Simulation and Workflow Management within an Enterprise Integration Methodology.- Enterprise Integration - Operational Modelsof Business Processes and Workflow Systems.- Design for an Enterprise.- IMMPAC - A Methodology for the Implementation of Enterprise Integration Programs in Mexican SMEs.- Flexible Industrial Applications Through Model-Based Workflows.- Integration in Small and Medium Enterprises - Specification of a Business Process Re-engineering Methodology.- Concurrent Engineering Reference Model for Integrated Product Development.- Methods and Tools for Decentralized Work and Information Structures in SMEs.- 4 Enterprise Modeling - Human Aspects.- Enterprise Modeling and the Socio-Technical Tradition.- Organization Issues and the ACNOS Approach.- Cooperative Processes and Workflow Management for Enterprise Integration.- The Capture of Human Interactions to Support Information Requirements Specification in Small Companies.- Characterization of the Place of the Human in Enterprise Integration.- Modeling Organizational Issues for Enterprise Integration.- CIMOSA and the Enterprise Organization.- 5 Enterprise Modeling - Applications.- A Model-Based Engineering Workbench for Shop Floor Control Applications.- Enterprise Models for Metro Systems Operations.- Enterprise Integration - User Requirements and the AIT Approach.- 6 Enterprise Modeling - Quality.- Considerations for Quality in Model Building and Use.- Opportunities for Software Support to the Simulation Process.- 7 Enterprise Modeling - Standardization.- A Framework for Standards which Support the Virtual Enterprise.- Enterprise Integration and Standardization.- QCIM - Successfactor Information Integration.- Author Index.