Design Method and Software Architecture for Federal SME Production Networks

First of all, the paper describes general characteristics of small and medium-sized production networks. On the basis of the diversification of these, the small and medium-sized enterprises can define their network strategy for the production network. In order to transfer the network strategy into reality, however, a structured method for the modeling of the small and medium-sized enterprise network processes is required. The article introduces this method for the design and optimization of a federal small and medium-sized enterprise production network. Finally, the federal characteristics of SMEs and the designed production network processes leads to new software architecture.