ENTERPRISE SYSTEM EXAMPLES

Week 2
ES APPLICATIONS IN THE
MANUFACTURING
INDUSTRY
C3P System

In the mid-1990s, the Ford Motor Company found itself struggling to

increase its product development efficiency and found that, over many
years, different units of the organization had installed design automation
software that would increase local productivity, but in relative isolation

As the company looked to take engineering productivity to the next

level, which involved the sharing of product information more seamlessly
across disparate company functional units, it discoveredthat these
multiple software systems were difficult to link together
C3P System

The acronym combines the three “Cs” of

• computer-aided design,
• computer-aided manufacturing,
• computer-aided engineering

with yet another acronym: product information

management (PIM).
C3P System

large system that has been carefully designed and highly integrated to serve a very
large enterprise extending around the globe.

It is intended to be a single integrated system for the design and manufacture of

vehicles using the concepts of ESs and IIIE.

From a technological perspective, the system is an integration of subsystems through

which product information management system (PIMS) data are integrated and can be
shared.
C3P System
This system was applied to design, engineer, and manufacture automobiles mand was further used to provide
product information across and beyond the entire enterprise, extending into Ford’s supplier and customer
base.

The architecture of the system can be seen as generic and applicable to a wide range of industries. The system
implementation is considered to have been very successful

The system is now used by the following groups: design, body engineering, power train (engine, transmission,
and drive line), vehicle and package engineering, interior styling, interior layout and test development,
manufacturing plant layout, work cell design, tool design, and assembly line development. In short, it is used
over the entire life cycle of product design, development, and service.
C3P System
How C3P contributes to digital
manufacturing.
Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems
As a type of ES in the manufacturing industry, manufacturing systems must be cost-
effective and responsive to market changes.

Reconfigurable manufacturing systems (RMSs) provide a cost-effective solution to

mass customization.

As the core of RMS, reconfigurable machine tool (RMT) is constructed from a set of
standard modules and is designed to process a given family of machining features

emerged as an advanced system for applying ESs in manufacturing enterprises to

dynamically adapt to the changing market
Aero-Engine Pipe Routing

To improve the safety of air transportation, it is very important to design reliable pipe
systems for aero-engines.

The problem in designing an aeroengine piping system is finding satisfactory

connections between the sets of pipe outlets and inlets in a narrow space with the
consideration of spatial obstacles.

As a requirement, an ES for aero-engine pipe routing design should be able to process

and share massive data efficiently and coordinate the tasks and resources at different
levels, in order to achieve system-level optimization
Aero-Engine Pipe Routing
ESs are being successfully used for aero-engine pipe routing. Such ESs integrate
designers’ knowledge and experience into decision making and provide an
effective collaboration between designers and computing machines.

The design methodology and algorithms have been applied and validated in the
design of aeroengine pipe systems.

This can be further extended to the designs of other complex systems in which
human knowledge and reasoning are essential to the success ofthe design process.
Assembly Planning

Assembly planning is an important stage in the product life cycle and is crucial to the success of a
product.

As industrial products are becoming more sophisticated, more and more enterprises are adopting
technology for product assembly.

As a result, the importance of digital assembly as a key component of digital manufacturing for
assembly purposes is increasing.

The adoption of a digital manufacturing approach for the assembly planning of complex products
makes it possible to generate, analyze, and evaluate feasible assembly designs in a short time
ES APPLICATIONS IN
HEALTHCARE
• ESs have been widely used in the area of healthcare. Many
medical information systems have been adopted by
healthcare organizations. By sharing information through an
integrated system, a patient’s medical information can “flow
through” the entire system, with medical and financial
records being automatically updated without additional data
entry.
in-home healthcare station (IHHS)

The IoT integrates all kinds of sensing, identification, communication, networking, and information
management devices and systems and seamlessly links all the things based on needs, at any time
and anywhere, through any device or medium, allowing access to any information or allowing any
object to obtain any service more efficiently.

The impact of the IoT is significant as use of the Internet has grown astronomically in recent
decades the IoT is recognized as the future generation of the Internet. A part of the enabling
technologies include the wireless sensor network (WSN), mobile Internet, cloud computing, radio
frequency identification (RFID), machine-to-machine communication, human–machine interaction,
middleware, web service, information systems, data mining, and distributed intelligences.
in-home healthcare station (IHHS)

The design principles of the IHHS include the reuse of the 3C platform, certification of the Health
Extension, interoperability and extendibility, convenient and trusted software distribution, standardized
and secured electrical healthcare record handling, effective service composition, and efficient data fusion

the future of healthcare services can be changed from career-centric to patient-centric.

Moreover, the evolution of the healthcare delivery model has been boosted from the present hospital-
centric, through hospital-home balanced in 2020, to home-centric in 2030, as technology will eventually
transform the medical system by bringing technology directly into the home.
in-home healthcare station (IHHS)
Hardware and software architecture of the
proposed IHHS solution
Integrated medical supply system:

developed an integrated medical supply information system for healthcare clinic medical supply management.

The system is a robust web-based portal/platform for managing medical supply.

The system provides a variety of functions including web-based data entry, secure and automated exchange of
data, data visualization, automated data analysis, automated decision support, and healthcare information
infrastructure development.

Data can be sent electronically to the system, where it can be analyzed, explored, and mined using decision
support techniques for medical inventory management tasks.
ES APPLICATIONS IN THE
TELECOMMUNICATION
INDUSTRY
• ESs have been used in the telecommunications industry. The
telecommunications industry is a very specific high-tech
service industry. The main feature of the
telecommunications industry is its tight integration of
business process and informationtechnology applications.
operations support system (OSS)

becoming increasingly popular in the telecommunications industry. OSS is a mainstream technology

that supports large-scale network operation, maintenance, and management. OSS is a common term
for the collection of all of the support systems required to run a telecom operator’s business.

OSS consists of four subsystems: an OSS, a business support system (BSS), a resource support system
(RSS), and a system support system (SSS). The functions of OSS consist of activation, inventory
management, fault management, and workforce management, among other projects. BSS includes
customer care, multiservice provisioning, service assurance, and billing. RSS handles network resource
management, operation information management, customer basic information management, and
customer service information, among other things. SSS deals with log file, systemparameters, etc.
Functions of OSS
• It provides an interface to customers for all issues related to customer order, sales,
Customer care
billing, and problem handling.

Multiservice provision • It activates instances of service for particular customers.

Service assurance • It monitors and upholds the quality of the delivered services.
Billing • It charges for the service.
Planning and administration • It plans, designs, and administers the services and infrastructures.
EAI • It automates the exchange of data between internal applications.
Activation • It executes a service in an optimal and well-defined order.
Inventory management: • It keeps track of the equipment such as where it is, how it is configured, and its status.
Fault management • It can handle alarms.
Workforce management: • It manages and schedules teams of technicians,installers, and engineers.
ES APPLICATIONS IN
TRANSPORTATION
computer-based interlocking system
the relay logic is always used to describe the interlocking logic in CIS. Normally, all
of the interlocking logic has been designed by experienced signaling engineers
manually, which can lead to low efficiency and high cost.

To address this issue, a novel computer-based approach has been developed,

which uses a component-based model to represent the topology of the station
layout and uses state charts to describe the interlocking logic

ESs are playing an important role in the transportation industry such as high-
speed train operations.
ES APPLICATIONS IN
OTHER AREAS
Managing reverse logistics
reverse logistics is the process of planning, implementing, and controlling the efficient and cost effective flow of raw materials, in-
process inventory, finished goods, and related information from the point of consumption to the point of origin to the recapture
value or to proper disposal.

Information integration of reverse logistics is the key for implementing reverse logistics systems

Reverse logistics of used batteries not only protects the natural environment, but also promotes the important economic value of
the used batteries.

Reverse logistics activity involves wider regions, more partners, and more complicated operations than forward logistics

The entire management process, information sharing, transaction coordination, decision support, and the allocation of resources are
inseparable and require support from the ESs.
Plateau ecosystem management

Sustainability of ecology describes how biological systems remain diverse and productive over
time.

Due to various causes such as increasing population, pollution, and the inappropriate use of natural
resources, the global ecosystem has deteriorated rapidly

An ecosystem is extremely complex, since a large number of system components are involved,
and the relationships among these components are dynamic. Decision making for a sustainable
ecosystem needs the scientific understanding of the system based on reliable real-time data
collected from the environment. it is essential to develop an ES for data management.
Product quality management

Popular quality management methods such as total quality management provide enterprises
with vital tools to ensure the expected product quality in production

the safety of a consumer product also relies on a number of factors involved in its life cycle,
some of which are difficult to control. It is challenging to acquire and integrate the information
from all of the sources involved in the supply chain to assess the risk level of a product.

In the system, knowledge is acquired from groups of experts to assess product safety. The
level of safety is then measured. The implementation of the system allows assessment and
comparison of a broad range of risks and makes the process of risk assessmenthighly efficient.
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