Integrated enterprise modelling to achieve interoperability

The paper targets the use of an integrated enterprise modelling approach to analyse and overcome the gab of understanding of interoperability challenges across and between enterprises. It discusses the use of enterprise modelling to support the decision about new technologies identifying benefits in relation to the investment. This includes the potentials of the enterprise models to derive directly enterprise application services such as integrated management support or shop floor IT execution management. The goal is a review of these approaches in the discussion within the workshop "A Future Vision of Flexible Configurable Manufacturing in a Digitised World".