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Enterprise Systems Engineering for Improving Cross‐enterprise Effectiveness
Author(s) -
Sitton Miri,
Reich Yoram
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.2016.00282.x
Subject(s) - enterprise integration , interoperability , enterprise systems engineering , enterprise system , enterprise information system , enterprise software , epic , enterprise modelling , enterprise life cycle , computer science , aerospace , process management , enterprise architecture , systems engineering , knowledge management , engineering , world wide web , architecture , art , literature , visual arts , aerospace engineering
Enterprise system engineering (ESE) is an emerging practice arising in the last decades, hand in hand with the maturing of system engineering (SE). However, ESE differs significantly from SE, due to the enterprise's unique property as a system of unsynchronized arrays of systems. This property might lead to severe issues, such as cross‐enterprise failures, lack of decision‐support information for cross‐enterprise decisions, long delays in integration tests and unexpected emergent behavior. Existing approaches including ESE frameworks and Systems of Systems (SOS) engineering do not fully address this property. This paper presents a new ESE framework named EPIC (Enterprise Processes Integrative Collaboration), enabling the coordination between unsynchronized arrays of systems within the enterprise and even further across several enterprises. EPIC was implemented successfully in two large‐scale cases from the aerospace and transportation disciplines. Similarly, EPIC may be applicable in other disciplines in order to obtain better enterprises by improving cross‐enterprise operational processes and interoperability.