Jorge Minguez

Thales Group · MLS

Im heutigen globalen Wettbewerb müssen produzierende Unternehmen ihre technischen Prozesse und Ressourcen in der Fabrik an die sich ständig verändernden Geschäftsbedingungen anpassen. In diesem Umfeld gewinnt der Einsatz digitaler Werkzeuge zunehmend an Bedeutung. Die Datenverwaltung in der Fabrik setzt auf Informationsflüsse, die auf verschiedene...

Manufacturing companies are operating today in a turbulent market. Permanently changing preconditions forces the companies to continuously adapt their business and production processes to get the optimal productivity. Therefore, a vast number of IT systems are introduced to support tasks along the product life cycle. These systems are typically iso...

Constantly changing business conditions require a high level of flexibility in business processes as well as an adaptive and fully interoperable IT infrastructure in today’s manufacturing environments. The lack of flexibility prevents manufacturing companies from improving their responsiveness and adapting their workflows to turbulent scenarios. In...

In times of globalization and saturated markets, manufacturing companies are forced to find new possibilities of differentiation against competitors. Product-service systems (PSS) are a strategic approach that offers this possibility by integrating goods and services. The implementation of a PSS entails challenges for the resulting supply chain str...

Constantly changing business environments force manufacturing companies to continuously adapt their products, processes and services in order to remain competitive. This adaptation requires also changes in Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) processes, which seamlessly integrate applications across the factory. Therefore, EAI middleware soluti...

The continuously changing environment is nowadays a major challenge for companies. The tough competition, growing customization of products and environmental regulations forces companies to continuously adapt their business processes. In order to manage the complexity and reduce the effort for developing products and production, many IT systems are...

One of the major challenges for Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) process modeling tools is the continuous adaptation of the business processes and services. Business and IT specialists are both confronted with a number of problems involved in the adaptation of such processes, such as the lack of support for process lifecycle management, dat...

Starting-up production machines takes a considerable part of time and development expenses. Especially in the case of reconfigurable machines a short start-up phase is essential. Many activities, which are necessary during the start-up, can be automated. These are the configuration of mechatronic modules, control- and fieldbus systems as well as th...

Integration efforts in today's manufacturing environments tend to enable service-based communication interfaces between enterprise and manufacturing systems. Constantly changing business conditions demand a high level of flexibility in business processes as well as an adaptive and fully interoperable IT infrastructure. The principles of reusability...

Constantly changing business conditions require a high level of flexibility in business processes as well as an adaptive and fully interoperable IT infrastructure in today's manufacturing environments. The lack of flexibility prevents manufacturing companies from improving their responsiveness and adapting their workflows to turbulent scenarios. In...

Product-Service Systems (PSS) are a strategic approach that offers manufacturing companies the possibility of long-term differentiation against competitors by integrating goods and services. The implementation of a PSS entails challenges for the resulting supply chain structure and the IT infrastructure supporting coordinated service offerings, suc...

Service-oriented computing is nowadays a rising technology to implement business processes in an efficient and flexible manner. This technology has a great impact on manufacturing environments. The realization of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) with a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has many benefits. Some advantages are a seamless and flexi...

The vision of knowledge-based and intelligent manufacturing systems is driving the development of system architectures, which can seamlessly manage information flows across multiple heterogeneous manufacturing systems and provide the necessary services to support the execution of production processes. Constantly changing business conditions and tur...

In einem modernen Produktionsumfeld soll es möglich sein, informationstechnische Prozesse an die sich zunehmend ändernden Geschäftsbedingungen anzupassen. Um eine schnelle Anpassung zu realisieren, ist eine flexible Integration unterschiedlicher Informationssysteme erforderlich, da die Informationsflüsse durch systemübergreifende Datenbearbeitungsp...

Nowadays, one of the main challenges for companies is the effective management of IT-systems. In times where requirements and companies change steadily, the IT-infrastructure has to adopt these changes as well: new systems have to be integrated or existing adapted. Even worse, these systems work together to support business processes of a company a...

Product-service systems (PSS) have been claimed as an interesting strategy for reaching sustainable differentiation. Migrating from a manufacturing company to a solution provider through PSS offerings raises different challenges, especially for the supply chain. This paper describes a road-map that helps a manufacturing organization to: 1. evaluate...

Volatile markets and constantly changing business conditions force manufacturing enterprises to continuously adapt their digital factory information systems. In many industries there is still no backbone for the integration of factory information systems. Current integration is based on point-to-point interfaces, which is partially due to the cost...

Constantly changing business conditions require a high level of flexibility in business processes as well as an adaptive and fully interoperable IT infrastructure in today's manufacturing environments. The lack of flexibility prevents manufacturing companies to improve their responsiveness and to adapt their workflows to turbulent scenarios. In ord...

Major challenges that companies face nowadays are extremely volatile markets, a globally distributed supplier network and constantly changing business environments. These circumstances demand a high level of agility and extraordinary flexibility in the business modeling and the organizational structures of a company as well as adaptive and interope...

Rule-based context reasoning is an expressive way to define situations, which are crucial for the implementation of many context-aware applications. Along the scenario of the Conference Guard application we show how this reasoning can be done both by leveraging an efficient context management (realized by the Nexus platform) and by a generic rule b...

In grown IT infrastructures for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), applications are mostly interconnected using point-to-point interfaces. This leads to complex and unmanageable infrastructures. A continuous and efficient integration is a key requirement for successful PLM implementations. The Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a prevalent sol...