Semantically-enriched Service-Oriented Business Applications

Process planning and control has a key role at building a proper manufacturing both in theoretical and practical manner. Quality and effectiveness of completing end-user requirements depend on process control and quality assurance which is mostly supported by computer aided systems. However complex software solutions supporting manufacturing, process control and quality assurance are often placed separated at different participants of the supply-manufacturing-distribution process. Software solutions and systems used by the participants can be different in many ways like the platform they are built on. Re-integration of the whole process (processes might be partitioned into supply, production, distribution, etc. parts corresponding due to the specialization of the participants) indicates the need for integration of these separated systems. Therefore an integration solution must be conceptualized and used for ensuring proper co-working via well defined communication between these systems.