The Proteus Approach of Maintenance Work Flow Management

Authors:	Thron Mario, ifak Magdeburg, Germany Bangemann Thomas, ifak Magdeburg, Germany
Topic:	5.1 Manufacturing Plant Control
Session:	Research and Developments Challenges and Open Issues in Manufacturing Automation
Keywords:	E-maintenance, concurrent engineering, service integration, Web Service, workflow programming

Abstract

Equipment maintenance is an essential need for successful industrial enterprises. Several software applications are used today for initiation and management of maintenance activities. This paper introduces the PROTEUS integration platform for co-operative interactions between maintenance applications. It is necessary to define the order of these interactions, the so-called business logic workflow. The paper shows the approach of workflow management starting from user-defined scenarios leading to runtime implementations for the PROTEUS platform.