THE M-ASTERISK-OBJECT ORGANIZATION MODEL FOR ENTERPRISE MODELING OF INTEGRATED ENGINEERING ENVIRONMENTS

Concurrent engineering and integrated manufacturing environments rely on the management of concurrent business processes supported by integr ated information systems. These business processes and the underlying information systems must be engineered in a systematic way to guarante e compliance with business requirements and overall system consistency and efficiency. In this paper, the organisation model of the M-OBJEC T methodology is presented as a tool to model business processes and s pecify design requirements on the information system. It covers functi onal, behavioural, information, and organisation aspects. It includes a workflow model, an object flow model, and an interaction model. Then it is shown how conceptual design models can be derived from organisa tion models. M-OBJECT strongly enforces an event-driven process-based approach at all levels as opposed to traditional function-based appro aches for analysing and designing computer-supported integrated engine ering environments.