An Ambient Intelligence Information Infrastructure for Production-to-Maintenance Processes

Authors:	Mueller Joerg, Siemens AG Corp. Technology, Germany Zimmermann Roland, FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Topic:	5.4 Large Scale Complex Systems
Session:	Holonic and Agent-based Control
Keywords:	Agents, autonomous control, communication systems, distributed artificial intelligence, process automation, business process management

Abstract

Specific informational problems are predominant in Process-to-Maintenance (P2M) proc-esses of machine and plant construction industries. An integrated information infrastructure is required to reduce these deficits. Ambient technologies such as active IT-elements and software agents offer the opportunity to design and realize a flexible infor-mation infrastructure that is used to coordinate all process phases. Potential benefits of the architecture are discussed in detail and further research to develop an Ambient Intelli-gence Information Infrastructure (AIII) for P2M-processes is justified.