An Approach of Modeling, Monitoring and Managing Business Operations for Just-In-Time Manufacturing

Recently business process management has received a lot of attentions because of its potential to dramatically improve business efficiency. This paper describes an end-to-end scenario for the business process execution and monitoring for the JIT (Just In Time) schedule execution. JIT is a manufacturing method developed in Japan and later quickly spread into other countries. The purpose of JIT is to eliminate wastes and improve productivity. JIT has been widely adopted in industries like electronics, automobile and aerospace. In today’s increasingly competitive business environment, it is quite common that customers may need to change their manufacturing orders. When a manufacturer receives an order change request, the manufacturer needs to conduct a series checks (such as manufacturing capacity, availability of parts, etc) in order to give an answer to the change request. The scenario described in this paper is about how to quickly schedule the manufacturing plan when the manufacturer receives customers’ change request. There are many aspects of managing business processes, and the focus of this paper is on describing operational specification, performance specification, and necessary components and artifacts for JIT schedule execution. We will describe the steps involved in the process.