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Towards the understanding of the requirements of a communication language to support process interoperation in cross-disciplinary supply chains
journal contribution
posted on 2017-09-21, 10:55 authored by Bishnu P. Das, Anne-Francoise Cutting-Decelle, Robert I.M. Young, Keith Case, Shahin RahimifardShahin Rahimifard, Chimay J. Anumba, Nasreddine M. BouchlaghemMany manufacturing organizations while doing business either directly or indirectly with other industrial sectors often encounter interoperability problems among software systems. This increases the business cost and reduces the efficiency. Research communities are exploring ways to reduce this cost. Incompatibility amongst the syntaxes and the semantics of the languages of application systems is the most common cause to this problem. The process specification language (PSL), an ISO standard (18629), has the potential to overcome some of these difficulties by acting as a neutral communication language. The current paper has therefore focused on exploring this aspect of the PSL within a cross-disciplinary supply chain environment.
The paper explores a specific cross-disciplinary supply chain scenario in order to understand the mechanisms of communications within the system. Interoperability of processes supporting those communications are analysed against PSL. A strategy is proposed for sharing process information amongst the supply chain nodes using the ‘PSL 20 questions wizard and it is concluded that, although there is a need to develop more effective methods for mapping systems to PSL, it can still be seen as a powerful tool to aid the communications between processes in the supply chain. The paper uses a supply chain scenario that cuts across the construction and manufacturing business sectors in order to provide a breadth to the types of disciplines involved in communication.
Funding
The current authors would like to acknowledge the support of the EPSRC which funded this project through Loughborough University’s ‘Innovative Manufacturing and Construction Research Centre’, under the Grant No. GR/N22526.
History
School
- Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Published in
International Journal of Computer Integrated ManufacturingVolume
20Issue
4Pages
396 - 410Citation
DAS, B. ... et al., 2007. Towards the understanding of the requirements of a communication language to support process interoperation in cross-disciplinary supply chains. International Journal of Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, 20 (4), pp.396-410.Publisher
© Taylor & FrancisVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publisher statement
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2007Notes
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Computer-Integrated Manufacturing on 11/04/2007, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09511920600873741.ISSN
0951-192XeISSN
1362-3052Publisher version
Language
- en