P Bernus, L Nemes, T J Williams (Eds)
Chapman and Hall, London (1996) ISBN 04 12 731 401
Chapman and Hall representatives around the world
The 1990s have seen many large scale efforts to transform companies into more agile and efficient global enterprises. An important lesson of the efforts in Computer-integrated Manufacturing and other business has been that enterprises - like any other man-made system - need to be properly designed and that methods to do this should become widely available and publicised. Architectures for Enterprise Integtaion is a book that describes the latest methods that guide enterprises and consultants, managers and technical personnel through a complete life-cycle of enterprise development.
The subject of this book is the presentation of the state-of-the-art of enterprise architecture: the discipline of how enterprises can be designed or redesigned. It contains an analysis and the comparison of the three major architectureal frameworks and methodologies that cover the entire enterprise life-cycle - starting with the identification of the business entity through its master planning process to the implementation of the change process.
The architectures and methodologies analysed in this book are: the Computer-integrated Manufacturing Open Systems Archutecture (CIMOSA), developed by the Amice consortium, the Purdue Enterprise Reference Architecture (PERA), developed by the Purdue Industry Consortium, and the GRAI-GIM integrated methodology, developed by GRAI/LAP at the University of Bordeaux.
This is an important reading material for those professionals who want to design or redesign enterprises because it gives detailed analysis, explanation and help for selecting between the available methodologies as well as taking advantage of their individual strengths. The book is the result of a three year effort of the Joint International Task Force set up by the two internatinal organisations: IFIP and IFAC, and also contains a roadmap to further development in the area.
The book covers a problem area that needs the contribution of multiple disciplines academics in all of thise areas belong to the tergated readership, i.e. Level of readership: Lecturers and above and researcher officers / research fellows and above in
The text would be suitable for students of the following studies / levels
For a course in Enterprise Integration methodologies the book would be suitable as a primary book of reference either essential or strongly recommended reading. The style of the book is not for undergraduate level.
Peter Bernus
Dr Peter Bernus is the vice-chair of the IFIP-IFAC Task Force for Architectures for Enterprise Integration, and is a Senior Lecurer at the School of Computing and Information Technology at Griffith University. He has previously held senior research positions at the University of Queensland, Australia, the Centre for Mathemartics and Compouter Science in the Netherlands, and at the Computer and Automation Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Since 1995 Dr Bernus is a chairman of the new IFIP Working Group WG5.12, Architectures for Enterprise Integration. Dr Bernus is member of the ACM and has published 38 refereed papers and 28 research reports and has served as a programme committee member of numerous conferences. He is also chair of the International Programme Committee of the IFIP Working Conference on Modelling and Methodologies for Enterporise Integration (EI95).
Laszlo Nemes
Dr Laszlo Nemes is a Chief Research Scientist at the CommonwealthScientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Australia leading the Intelligent Manufacturing Research Program. He is on the Board of Directors for the Cooperative Research Centre for Intelligent Manufacturing Systems and Technologies. Dr Nemes has published 85 papers and holds 6 patents. He is a member for Editorial Boards of three technical journals. Dr Nemes is a Fellow of the IEAust, and ISPE. Dr Nemes is Chair of the IFIP Working Group WG5.3 Computer-Aided Manufacturing.
Theodore J Williams
Professor Theodore J Williams Dr. Theodore J. Williams is Professor Emeritus of Engineering and Director Emeritus of the Purdue Laboratory for Applied Industrial Control at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. He served actively in these positions from 1965 through 1994. He has served two terms as President of the American Federation for Information Processing Societies (AFIPS) (1976-78). He is a former President of the American Automatic Control Council (AACC) (1965-67), and a Past President of the Instrument Society of America (ISA) (1969).
He was also Chairman of the Automation Research Council, a national body funded by the National Science Foundation (1974-80). He served a seven-year term as the first Chairman of Technical Committee TC-5, Computer Applications in Technology, of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and of its Working Group 5.4, entitled, Common and/or Standardized Hardware and Software Techniques (1971-78). He was the Organizer of and Chairman of the International Purdue Workshop on Industrial Computer Systems (1969-89).
In August 1990 he was named Chairman of the IFAC/IFIP Task Force on Architectures for Enterprise Integration. This is the first joint task force set up by these two international bodies. He has served as consultant to several governments. Dr. Williams is the author or editor of 45 books and 364 published technical papers in the fields of computer applications, process dynamics and industrial computer control.