Business Process Warehouse for Manufacturing Collaboration

One of important changes in manufacturing industry is that competition among individual companies has been extended to competition among the manufacturing networks surrounding the companies. Most manufacturing companies participate in various forms of collaboration to enhance competitive advantages in their arenas. In this paper, we introduce a data warehouse system that is designed for a manufacturing collaboration support system, named i-manufacturing. Just as enterprise information systems, the collaboration system also needs the functions for performance measurement and monitoring. For that reason, we propose a new approach to measuring and evaluating collaborative performance of manufacturing collaboration. Specifically, we first present a methodology of measuring collaborative performance of manufacturing collaboration. We next design a data schema of business process warehouse to store data of performance indicators and monitor collaboration performance from the indicators. Finally, we implement a prototype system of business process warehouse to implement the collaborative performance management and monitoring. The proposed methodology of monitoring and analyzing collaborative performance of manufacturing collaboration can contribute to effectively maintaining and continuously improving collaboration in manufacturing industry.