Process-Driven Approach within the Engineering Domain by Combining Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) with Process Engines

• DOI: 10.1016/j.procir.2021.01.076
• Publication Date: 2021-02-10T18:28:11Z
• Authors: Eike Schäffer; Volker Stiehl; Peter K. Schwab; Andreas Mayr; Josef Lierhammer; Jörg Franke
• Keywords: Executable; Business informatics; Model-driven architecture; Process modeling

Digitization within the framework of Industry 4.0 is considered biggest and fastest driver change in history manufacturing industry. While size a company becoming less essential, ability to adapt quickly changing market conditions new technologies more important than ever. This trend particularly applies companies' software landscapes, where individual sub-processes services must be orchestrated, seamlessly integrated, iteratively renewed according ever-increasing user requirements. However, inflexible, closed monolithic applications as well self-programmed stand-alone tools that are difficult integrate still predominant engineering domain. A complete reimplementation existing, proprietary their integration into large providers often not economically feasible, especially for small medium-sized machinery plant manufacturers. In this context, so-called Process-Driven Approach (PDA) offers sustainable tool-neutral opportunity process tool orchestration, enabling an easy by consistent utilization separation concerns principle. The PDA, originating from business informatics, mainly based on standardized machine-executable visual modeling language Business Process Model Notation (BPMN). Using semantic enhancements found version 2.0, BPMN just used model processes but also execute between different systems. After PDA has already been successfully applied large-scale projects it now being transferred As shown paper, allows orchestrate underlying tools, such e-mail or spreadsheet applications, custom microservices, using interfaces like REST API. doing so, can made transparent, monitored, optimized means appropriate key figures. concept validated prototypical implementation minimum functional architecture