Summary, Conclusions and Future Work

The necessity to (re-) act on internal and external events in (near) real-time has been formulated as part of the RTE vision. This vision requires an enterprise with fully integrated, automated and individualized value creation processes. With respect to manufacturing enterprises, the following problem areas could be identified in this research work: (i) standardization of shop floor interfaces to establish a vertically integrated enterprise; (ii) conceptualization of real-time monitoring and control concepts based on EDA and CEP; and (iii) their implementation in the realm of MES.