Data and services have become the key factor in optimising manufacturing processes. The need to react to dynamically changing market demands is dramatically rising. One of the most imperative problems so far is to connect supply chain data and services between enterprises and to connect value chain data within a factory so that it can meaningfully support decision-making.
COMPOSITION will create a digital automation framework, the COMPOSITION Integrated Information Management System (IIMS) that enhances the manufacturing processes by exploiting existing data, knowledge and tools to increase productivity and dynamically adapt to changing market requirements. This technology acts as the technical operating system for business connections between factories and their suppliers. Furthermore, it opens a new space for third party entities to actively interact along the supply chain, e.g., by providing services to optimise cycle time, cost, flexibility or resource usage. In addition to the supply chain improvements, the processes inside the company can be addressed and optimised.
Data across the (multi-sided) company internal value chain is integrated by the IIMS with optimisation and modelling tools for resource management including innovative, multi-level, real-time cross-domain analytics and a Decision Support System.
The technology will extend existing FI-WARE, FITMAN and LinkSmart catalogues, in addition to a Building Management System for environmental data gathering. Inter-operability, ease of retrofit and scalability are critical parameters that are taken carefully into account in devising such IIMS.
