China
Africa
Explore chapters and articles related to this topic
Methods and techniques for acquiring manufacturing knowledge
Published in Justyna Patalas-Maliszewska, Managing Manufacturing Knowledge in Europe in the Era of Industry 4.0, 2023
Functions are associated with events and connections: associate activities. There are three types of connectors – AND, OR and exclusive OR (XOR) – reflecting logical relationships between elements, units of responsibility (positions, organisational units, people) or objects responsible for information flow (documents, e-documents, etc.). For the purpose of defining the graphical representation of a business process, one can also distinguish such notations as BPMN and BPEL. BPMN illustrates processes based on four basic groups of graphic elements:Flow objects – objects defining the process flow, which include events, activities and decision objects.Connecting objects – elements connecting elements of the model in the form of control flows, messages, associations and places of implementation.Swimlanes – objects grouping other elements of the process in the form of tanks.Tracks and artefacts.
What are the Technology Components of BPM?
Published in John Jeston, Business Process Management, 2022
In terms of having a unified visual notation for representing process workflows, BPMN was developed in 2004 by the Object Management Group (OMG; www.bpmn.org), which manages the specification. BPMN provides businesses with the capability of understanding their internal business processes in a graphical notation and provides organizations with the ability to communicate these processes in a standard way. Concepts such as parallel processing, branching, subflows, iteration, roles, and activities can all be modeled using this notation, allowing an organization to capture its workflows at the business level, understandable to everyone within the organization and without technical complexity.
What are the Technology Components of BPM?
Published in John Jeston, Business Process Management, 2018
In terms of having a unified visual notation for representing process workflows, Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) was developed in 2004 by the Object Management Group (OMG; www.bpmn.org), which manages the specification. The latest version, BPMN 2.0, was released in August 2009. BPMN provides businesses with the capability of understanding their internal business processes in a graphical notation, and provides organizations with the ability to communicate these processes in a standard way. Concepts such as parallel processing, branching, sub-flows, iteration, roles and activities can all be modeled using this notation, allowing an organization to capture its workflows at the business level, understandable to everyone within the organization and without technical complexity.
Exploring the links between simulation modelling and construction production planning and control: a case study on the last planner system
Published in Production Planning & Control, 2023
Mohammed Adel Abdelmegid, Vicente A. González, Michael O’Sullivan, Cameron G. Walker, Mani Poshdar, Luis Fernando Alarcón
Several representation methods are reported in the literature to represent model behaviour such as Process Flow Diagrams, Activity Cycle Diagrams, Logic Flow Diagrams, Unified Modelling Language (UML), and Petri Nets (Onggo 2009; Robinson 2014). In this study, we adopted the use of Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN) diagrams, which are based on Process Flow Diagrams, due to their ability to represent the spatial aspects of construction operations. Each BPMN diagram consists of fields (to represent locations where operations take place), activities, gateways, and connectors. As the overall system behaviour is not defined yet at this step, gateways are labelled as control units, which represent the decision-making process. The definition of these control units will be conducted in the next CM step.
Towards a knowledge base to support global change policy goals
Published in International Journal of Digital Earth, 2020
Stefano Nativi, Mattia Santoro, Gregory Giuliani, Paolo Mazzetti
Workflows can be formalized using standard representations like the Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN).12 This notation allows expressing abstract processes ranging from the full Workflow to the single scientific model. BPMN, introduced by the Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI), is a formal (and graphical) process notation. The objective of BPMN is to support business process management, for both technical users and business users, by providing a notation that is intuitive to business users, yet able to represent complex process semantics. The BPMN specification also provides a mapping between the graphics of the notation and the underlying constructs of execution languages, particularly Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) by OASIS.13 Presently, the specification is standardized by the OMG (Object Management Group),14 endorsed by WfMC, and broadly adopted across the industry. BPMN 2.015 (released in Jan 2011) introduced the ability to serialize process models and diagrams. The XPDL standard from WfMC covers how to store and interchange process definitions. For example, XPDL16 provides a file format that supports every aspect of the BPMN process definition notation including graphical descriptions of the diagram, as well as executable properties used at run time.
A novel approach to measuring enterprise procurement decision process: an information distance perspective
Published in Enterprise Information Systems, 2020
Xiong Li, Xiaodong Zhao, Wei Pu
BPMN is a graphical notation for defining business process through a business processes diagram and has become the standard de-facto for representing BP (Fouzia and Sonia 2018). The objective of BPMN is to support business process modelling for both technical users and business users, by providing notation that is intuitive to business users, yet able to represent complex process semantics (von Rosing et al. 2015). Martins and Domingos (2017) used standard BPMN to define both central and Internet of Things behaviour of business processes. Morgan (2007) applied the notation of BPMN to represent information usage in business modelling. Cabanillas, Resinas, and Ruiz-Cortés (2018) proposed a template-based approach for generating resource-aware BPMN models for responsibility management in executable business processes.