This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Industrial Operations / Information Processing Convergence Control Chain Management Body Of Knowledge MI Manufacturing Intelligence Beyond the buzzword 04/2011 Jean Vieille www.syntropicfactory.com j.vieille@syntropicfactory.com Research community www.controlchainmanagement.org Consulting group: www.controlchaingroup.com Introduction « Manufacturing Intelligence » is a wide spread commercial buzzword Ø Software vendors provide « intelligent » software solutions to exist on the market - What this means exactly? Intelligence is a subjective and scalable topic. Ø A simple computation linking the detection of an event to a subsequent relevent action can be considered a somewhat low QI behaviour Ø Consciousness, wisdom seem much higher level that are currently unattainable by the machines MI - Manufacturing Intelligence - Beyond the buzzword Introduction Information is the material of intelligence Ø Software bears a critical and increasing role Ø « Interaction » is a key element Organization makes intelligence actionable Ø Coherent, converging efforts to drive the system Solutions Manufacturing Intelligence? Ø Software vendors and integrators, consultants are not responsible for enabling / developing intelligence Ø However, software being concerned by information is more and more critical This study discusses general aspects of intelligence and its applicability Ø in the context of the industrial enterprise and specifically its manufacturing operations MI - Manufacturing Intelligence - Beyond the buzzword Main agenda 1 MI ­ Common Understanding and Solutions 2 MI ­ Intelligence ­ Real meaning 3 MI ­ Enable and Develop intelligence ­ Language 4 MI ­ Make Intelligence Actionable - VSM 5 MI ­ Case studies A1 MI ­ Enterprise language standards A2 MI ­ Enterprise metamodel and taxonomy A3 MI ­ Science for Enterprise systems MI - Manufacturing Intelligence - Beyond the buzzword