Internet-enabled modelling of extended manufacturing enterprises using process-based techniques

This article presents the preliminary results of an ongoing research project on Internet-enabled process-based modelling of extended manufacturing enterprises. We propose applying the open system architecture for CIM (CIMOSA) modelling framework alongside object-oriented Petri net models of enterprise processes and object-oriented techniques for extended enterprises modelling. We describe the main features of the proposed approach and discuss some components. We present elementary examples of object-oriented Petri net implementation and real-time visualisation.