Virtual Enterprise Process Management: An Application To Industrial Maintenance

The paper firstly reviews the relevant concepts on virtual enterprise operations as well as industrial maintenance processes. Then a virtual enterprise enabling platform is presented. The architecture of the platform and its main modules are briefly introduced. Within this platform, a smart object extension is highlighted. This smart object is used to collect data from remote equipment and pass it to the Virtual Enterprise Management Platform (VEMP) through a gateway. The data collected by the smart object will be aggregated and monitored, using the business intelligence tools of the platform, enabling the implementation of maintenance strategies, rising fault conditions that will trigger a repair business process. In the final part of the paper, it is discussed a business case for a SME with worldwide operations.4347179New University of Lisbon,UNINOVA,Universiteit van AmsterdamCamarinha-Matos, L.M., Afsarmanesh, H., Galeano, N., Molina, A., Collaborative Networked Organizations-Concepts and practice in manufacturing enterprise (2008) Computers & Industrial EngineeringGrefen, P., Towards Dynamic Interorganizational Business Process Management (keynote speech) (2006) Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises, pp. 13-18. , Manchester, UKCarneiro, L.M., Almeida, R., Azevedo, A.L., Kankaanpaa, T., Shamsuzzoha, A.H.M., An innovative framework supporting SME networks for complex product manufacturing (2010) PRO-VE 2010. IFIP AICT, 336, pp. 204-211. , Camarinha-Matos, L.M., Boucher, X., Afsarmanesh, H. (eds.),,. Springer, HeidelbergMolina, A., Velandia, M., Galeano, N., Virtual Enterprise Brokerage: A Structure-driven Strategy to Achieve Build to Order Supply Chains (2007) International Journal of Production Research, 45 (17), pp. 3853-3880Powell, A., Piccoli, G., Ives, B., Virtual teams: A review of current literature and directions for future research (2004) ACM SIGMIS Database, 35 (1), pp. 6-36Shamsuzzoha, A., Abels, S., Kuspert, S., Helo, P., Smart collaborative processes monitoring in real-time business environment: Applications of Internet of Things and cloud-data repository (2014) 16th Int. Conf. on Enterprise Information Systems, , Lisbon, Portugal, April 27-30Shi, Y., Gregory, M., International manufacturing networks-to develop global competitive capabilities (1998) Journal of Operations Management, 16, pp. 195-214Zhou, X., Xi, L., Lee, J., Reliability-centered predictive maintenance scheduling for a continuously monitored system subject to degradation (2007) Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 92 (4), pp. 530-534Edwards, D.J., Holt, G.D., Harris, F.C., Predictive maintenance techniques and their relevance to construction plant (1998) Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering, 4 (1), pp. 25-37Moubray, J., (1997) Reliability-Centered Maintenance, 2nd edn, , Industrial Press, New YorkYam, R.C.M., Tse, P.W., Li, L., Tu, P., Intelligent predictive decision support system for condition-based maintenance (2002) International Journal of Advance Manufacturing Technology, 17, pp. 383-391Mobley, R.K., (2002) An introduction to predictive maintenance, , Butterworth-Heinemann Publisher, WoburnRojas, E.P.S., Barros, A.C., de Azevedo, A.L., Batocchio, A., Business model development for virtual enterprises (2012) PRO-VE 2012. IFIP AICT, 380, pp. 624-634. , Camarinha-Matos, L.M., Xu, L., Afsarmanesh, H. (eds.),,. Springer, Heidelber