COREPROSim: A Tool for Modeling, Simulating and Adapting Data-driven Process Structures?

Abstract. Industry is increasingly demanding IT support for large en-gineering process structures consisting of hundreds up to thousands of synchronized processes. In technical domains, such process structures are characterized by their strong relation to the assembly of a product (e.g., a car); i.e., resulting process structures are data-driven. The strong link-age between data and processes can be utilized for automatically creating process structures as well as for (dynamically) adapting them at a high level of abstraction. This paper presents the COREPROSim demonstra-tor which enables sophisticated support for modeling, coordinating and (dynamically) adapting data-driven process structures. COREPROSim substantiates the COREPRO approach which provides a new paradigm for the integration of complex data and process structures.