Enterprise Modelling

Business goals of manufacturing systems are typically in a state of constant change and greater rates of change are predicted in the future. Whereas contemporary approaches to the design and construction of these systems often results in inflexible enterprises that cannot readily be tuned to changing business goals. This work has specified and prototyped the use of a new model-driven and component based approach to the design and (re)configuration of ¿change capable¿ manufacturing cells. A new development of this modelling structure allows pre-modelled tasks to be selected, detailed and organised and suitable resources and reusable control system components (or building blocks) assigned to groups of tasks. Thereby this new approached to designing and building manufacturing cells can facilitate rapid and effective design and reconfiguration of manufacturing cell control systems. The research has shown how modelled sets of software component building blocks can be specified and implemented as modular, reusable elements of manufacturing cell control systems.

Dr. Radmehr P. Monfared has worked for more than 15 years in industrial and academic sectors in the area of design and manufacturing processes, at both business and engineering levels. Radmehr has strong background in practical aspect of running engineering organisations, and has particular interest and experience in the business aspects.