Integrated biomanufacturing workflow design and implementation: from R&D to diagnostic kits

The manufacturing industries are facing a rapidly changing landscape and new challenges are evolving. It is thus imperative for manufacturing enterprise to address these concerns with new innovation in order to stay competitive and achieve sustained growth. The competitive edges and innovation that enterprises can developed includes integrating quality services into well-established manufacturing processes for efficiency and effectiveness, practicing sustainable product development, adopting a total product life cycle oriented approach and leveraging on the up and coming Web technology in the emergence of virtual enterprises. In this paper, a generic integrated manufacturing and services system (IMSS) framework is being proposed and subsequently it was deployed in a biomanufacturing scenario as an initial proof of concept. An agent-based goal-oriented modelling approach is being used in the realization of the framework architecture.