A Role Interaction Approach to Support Manufacturing Enterprise Integration

AbstractEnterprise integration can be described as involving business process integration, business data integration, business software application integration and business computer system integration. In addition, these four must also be interlinked to achieve a truly integrated enterprise. This paper describes a ‘role interaction’ approach to meeting these integration needs of manufacturing enterprises. In short, ‘role interaction’ refers to the interaction that occurs between roles played by enterprise participants when performing their assigned tasks. An example showing this role interaction approach is discussed, using an enhanced form of the IDEF3 process description capture method.