Research On Theory And Methodologies Of Business Processes Optimization For Advanced Manufacturing Technologies

Advanced Manufacturing Technologies have been considered to be one of the most important mainstays of a national economic and social development. Advanced Manufacturing Technologies have considered that the environment of enterprises in an information age is continuously changing and unpredictable. This is a kind of turbulent or chaotic environment. Current approaches based on principle of division of labor to die design and construction of enterprise systems in China lead to fixed business processes. This constrains the agility of business processes, often preventing close alignment between enterprises system behavior and external changes. In such a severely challenging situation, Advanced Manufacturing Technologies have emphasized that enterprises for existence and growing must optimize their business processes in order to construct dynamic stable business processes structures to cope with chaotic environment.On the other hand, based on microscopic and quantitative mathematical models and assumption of environment of enterprises being relatively stationary, die traditional methodologies of optimizing business processes are facing strong challenges. Therefore, Advanced Manufacturing Technologies have put forward a new developed direction for business processes optimization, which is decision, dynamic flexibility, and information supporting.In this paper, based on the projects of SDAAC-CIMS and JZ-CIMS, from the three layers of theory layer, methodologies layer, and application layer, a research on business processes optimization for Advanced Manufacturing Technologies has been gone on in order to construct dynamic stable business processes structures to cope with chaotic environment.In the theory layer, based on macroscopic and synthetic approaches, especially information entropy approach, the quantification of the flexibledegree and order degree of business processes is studied. According to analysis above, combining the new developed direction, based on the theory of complex systems, utilizing macroscopic and synthetic approaches based on man-machine interaction decision-making support system and microscopic and quantitative decomposition approaches based on ERP R3 system of German SAP company, a conceptual model which would support construction of dynamic stable business processes is proposed.In the methodologies layer, a mixing matrix method on organization reengineering is proposed; processes decomposition method based on the principle of gathering and concurrent is proposed; a collaboration and decision information model which supports dynamic stable business processes optimizing model is researched; and last, logic architecture of information supporting platform based on object model is given.In the application layer, through taking seriously to investigate, with the help of experience and lessons of the developing and implementing CIMS in the last 10 years, we consider that the projects of SDAAC-CIMS and JZ-CIMS are not as much a technology exercise but an "organization revolution". There are often many difficulties in implementing SDAAC-CIMS and JZ-CIMS simply on the traditional business system. So business processes optimization must be firstly considered to ensure successful implementation of SDAAC-CIMS and JZ-CIMS. The research above has been applied in projects of SDDAC-CIMS and JZ-CIMS supported by the Foundation of National High-Technology Research and Development Program, and achieved primary benefits.