Abstract

Enhanced the business-to-business process integration capabilities is a key success factor in manufacturing industry. However, challenges such as changing markets and heterogeneous manufacturing resources counteract business process interactions. This paper proposes an integration framework for cross-organizational processes, in which two technologies, namely ontology and web service composition, are applied throughout process modeling, implementation and execution. Various manufacturing resources are encapsulated into uniform manufacturing services whose capabilities including properties and interfaces are encoded in an unambiguous as well as computer-understandable form. Leveraging the capabilities profiles as the mediation in the framework, business logic and implementation techniques are loosely coupling relationship, which enable enterprises to collaborate without prior relationship established and to adjust their processes on demand. Three key implementation techniques: semantic modeling of manufacturing services, services discovery and optimization selection are discussed in detailed.