From tool integration to workflow management - a lean integration solution
- Universitaet-GH Paderborn (Germany)
- Siemens-N ixdorf Informationssysteme AG, Paderborn (Germany)
The design of complex systems requires efficient tools and strategies to shorten the time-to-market interval from specification to product. The advent of frameworks was intended to combine different tools from different vendors to interact under a homogeneous environment. However, frameworks have become very complex software-systems that need experts to configure and maintain them. They are mainly used to integrate company specific products in one environment. Our approach of a Lean Integration Platform uses a standardized tool integration defined in the CFI Tool Encapsulation Specification. Based on this specification a decentralized tool server executes tool-requests distributed over a heterogeneous local or wide area network. Of course, tool integration is only one problem to overcome in order to support tool-driven design. A complete coverage of the design domain requires apt solutions for design data management including versioning and configuration management, process management and project management, to name only a few. To create a lean and scalable system the integration platform concentrates on supporting workflow-driven designs with an open interface to additional components as flow editors, user management add-ons or a sophisticated product data management facility. The behavior of the work-flow system is highly configurable.
- OSTI ID:
- 501762
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-961239-; TRN: 97:002725-0052
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: IDPT-2: 2. world conference on integrated design and process technology, Austin, TX (United States), 1-4 Dec 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of Integrated design and process technology. Volume 3; Esat, I.I.; Veniali, F.; Rasty, J.; Gransberg, D.D.; Ertas, A. [eds.]; PB: 407 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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