Enterprise Integration Models and Implementation Methods
Instructor: Shimon Y. Nof
Phone: 765-494-5427 E-mail: nof@purdue.edu http://cobweb.ecn.purdue.edu/~nof
Prerequisite:
Graduate student with at least one 500-level course in production/manufacturing related subjects, or consent of instructor. (In some cases, undergraduate students in the honor program will also be able to take this course.)
Objectives of Course:
The objective of this course is to study recent important developments in the modeling, evaluation, validation, and implementation of enterprise integration projects. Emphasis in typical other such courses is on CIM-related technologies. In contrast, this course will cover recent research developments in the U.S., Japan, and Europe that seek to evaluate the integration requirements of specific companies, and focus on how to integrate the appropriate information technologies in a production or service enterprise orientation.
The main topics covered in this course are:
1. Review of computer-supported integration and its role in industrial companies.
2. Reference models and enterprise architectures.
3. Software engineering for integration and collaboration.
4. Database and information integration.
5. Integration models and organization issues.
6. Implementation methodologies.
7. Case studies.
Assignments
Students will receive a set of selected research articles and reports as course materials. There will be 6 weekly homework assignments that will be graded. A key part of the course will be the individual semester project. The goal of the project is to apply the course methodologies and models to a particular enterprise system with which the student is familiar.
It is expected that the students graduating from this course will know how to plan, analyze, and evaluate specific enterprise integration projects.