Title :
Production workflows: a model for reuse
Author :
Carchiolo, Vincenza ; Longheu, Alessandro ; Malgeri, Michele
Author_Institution :
Dipt. di Ingegnena Informatica e delle Telecomunicazioni, Catania Univ.
Abstract :
The introduction of the workflow management provided companies with a flexible and robust approach to the supervision and execution of the business process. A further question that must be addressed is to help companies in the reuse of already developed workflows, thus saving investments and reducing time-to-market. This paper proposes a methodology aiming at providing reuse and modularity for production workflows based on four abstraction levels arranged into two steps: process and product
Keywords :
object-oriented methods; object-oriented programming; software reusability; workflow management software; business process management; object-oriented paradigm; production workflow management; software reuse; Companies; Concrete; Investments; Object oriented modeling; Production; Robustness; Software standards; Telecommunications; Time to market; Virtual manufacturing;
Conference_Titel :
Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, 2005. ETFA 2005. 10th IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Catania
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9401-1
DOI :
10.1109/ETFA.2005.1612536