Knowledge-intensive choreographies for open manufacturing production networks

CHALLENGES FOR FUTURE FACTORIES Reducing time/cost-to-market are continuous challenges that manufacturing processes have to cope with. Nevertheless, such challenges also push factories to reconsider physical products as only the core of a complex value chain. Future factories foster the establishment of highly dynamic and continuously evolving production systems. The many different organizations dynamically cooperate, even for only few aspects related to out-sourced activities. A NEW PARADIGM ENABLING FACTORIES OF THE FUTURE The choreography paradigm supports the definition inter-organizational service-based applications. Choreographies facilitate the dynamic integration and interoperability of services realized and managed by different organizations. They express a global view of the coordination in terms of desirable services. Our vision intends choreographies as open specifications for manufacturing processes. The objective is to support efficient, sustainable, and customizable production networks. Our goal is to define comprehensive ICT infrastructures enabling and governing the whole choreography life-cycle. Choreographies often reflect knowledge-intensive processes. Both information, and data sharing leverage on semantic assets supporting integration from the mere ICT aspects toward the organizational levels. In this sense, ICT-enabled choreographies are blueprints for third-parts service providers willing to join a supply chain with their services.