A Product Oriented Modelling Concept: Holons for systems synchronisation and interoperability

TL;DR

This paper introduces the 'Holon' modelling concept to synchronize physical and informational views in enterprise systems, enhancing traceability, product genealogy, and interoperability across the product lifecycle.

Contribution

It presents the holon concept as a novel approach for enterprise system synchronization and interoperability between physical and virtual product views.

Findings

Holon model effectively synchronizes physical and informational views.

Enhances traceability and product lifecycle management.

Facilitates interoperability in enterprise environments.

Abstract

Nowadays, enterprises are confronted to growing needs for traceability, product genealogy and product life cycle management. To meet those needs, the enterprise and applications in the enterprise environment have to manage flows of information that relate to flows of material and that are managed in shop floor level. Nevertheless, throughout product lifecycle coordination needs to be established between reality in the physical world (physical view) and the virtual world handled by manufacturing information systems (informational view). This paper presents the "Holon" modelling concept as a means for the synchronisation of both physical view and informational views. Afterwards, we show how the concept of holon can play a major role in ensuring interoperability in the enterprise context.