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Published in Susmita Bandyopadhyay, Production and Operations Analysis, 2019
The development of Integration Definition (IDEF) models for analysis of business processes has been motivated by the desire to increase productivity by improving the communication and structure of manufacturing systems. IDEF has different versions developed for different purposes. For example, IDEF0 is a method designed to model the decisions, actions, and activities of an organization or system. IDEF1 was designed as a method for both analysis and communication in the establishment of requirements. The IDEF3 (Process Description Capture Method) provides a mechanism for collecting and documenting processes.
Industrial Engineering and Digital Engineering
Published in Adedeji B. Badiru, The Story of Industrial Engineering, 2018
Interestingly, I have my own academic linkage to Alan Pritzker, who was the Ph.D. advisor of Gary Whitehouse, who was my own Ph.D. advisor. Such a genealogical relationship is essential for the continuing advancement of industrial engineering in the present-day context. The AFRL Manufacturing Directorate originally funded the development of IDEF0 (activity models), IDEF1 (data models), IDEF2 (dynamic models), and IDEF3 (process models) with extensions up to IDEF10 developed out of Texas A&M University and a small company called KBSI and funded via the Air Force Human Resources Lab, now AFRL/RH.
Production processes modelling within digital product manufacturing in the context of Industry 4.0
Published in International Journal of Production Research, 2023
Marko Vještica, Vladimir Dimitrieski, Milan Mirko Pisarić, Slavica Kordić, Sonja Ristić, Ivan Luković
Companies often utilise different types of documents to specify production processes, such as Bill of Materials (BOM), Bill of Materials and Operations (BOMO) and ASME Flow Process Charts (FPCs) (American Society of Mechanical Engineers 1947). However, none of them can be used to create a complete specification of production processes which could later be automatically executed. There are many process modelling languages, but most are neither explicitly tailored for the production domain nor ready to model execution-ready or instruction-generation-ready production processes. We already analysed conceptual process modelling languages in our previous research (Vještica et al. 2021b), such as Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN), Unified Modelling Language (UML) Activity Diagram (AD) and Petri Nets (PN). In addition, there are also Event-driven Process Chain (EPC), Value-Stream Mapping (VSM) and Integration Definition (IDEF) Method for Process Description Capture (IDEF3) (Mayer et al. 1995).
Enterprise modelling: from early languages to models transformation
Published in International Journal of Production Research, 2018
For example, GERA (Generic Enterprise Reference Architecture) supplies an analysis and modelling frame the structure of which was widely inspired by CIMOSA and PERA. Besides, EEM (Enterprise Engineering Methodology) makes a reference to modelling methodologies such as GIM or PERA. The latter use themselves languages sometimes supported by software tools gathered in EET/EML (Enterprise Engineering Tools/Languages). IDEF, IDEF3, CIMOSA and the GRAI grid on the one hand and ARIS Toolset, FirstSTEP, MOGO (IEM) (Mertins and Jaekel 1998) on the other hand appear among the languages and the tools which may be selected.