@inproceedings{pub5957,
    abstract = {Today’s global competition and rising prizes for resources force manufacturing companies to
directly connect their IT-Systems with their manufacturing plants. The connection, that should be
flexible, needs to be done in increasingly shorter time, resulting in an ad-hoc connection structures. Such
inadequate connection of the business and technical (manufacturing) level increases the planning and
implementation effort dramatically. Therefore this paper examines a flexible communication architecture
approach to close the gap between business and technical level. The concept enables the transfer of
information in form of key performance indicators to support decision-making processes in IT-Systems
of manufacturing companies. To prove the feasibility of the vertical integration approach a prototype is
implemented and evaluated in the SmartFactoryKL.},
    year = {2012},
    title = {Vertical Integration of decision relevant production information into IT-Systems of manufacturing companies},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 14th IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing (INCOM 12). IFAC Symposium on Information Control Problems in Manufacturing (INCOM-2012), May 23-25, Bucharest, Romania},
    publisher = {IFAC},
    author = {Tobias Gerber and Hans-Christian Bosch and Charlotta Johnsson},
    keywords = {modular factory, vertical integration, manufacturing processes, production},
    organization = {IFAC}
}