Autor: Edzard Weber

The manufacturing of products ties up energy as well as material resources. The awareness of consumers and producers as well as legislative activities to achieve a sustainable use of available resources are developing much too slowly. In this paper, a local remanufacturing approach is presented, which makes it possible to reduce resource consumption, to promote local enterprises and to offer efficient solutions for the regional reuse of goods.

This article describes an opportunity to model actors and systems in various business processes into an overall model by using the technique of networking. To achieve this goal, an algorithm is introduced. Next, different metrics based on social network analysis, are described. These metrics are able to expose parts of the network which have a huge utilization and therefore the underlying process itself. With this technique it is possible for project leaders, managers and decision makers to analyze the processes for flaws, finding out capacities and to build new project teams together (staffing).

Particularily in local processes the search for and dispersion of information as well as the recognition of experts, resources and their availability all takes place by direct social interaction. In distributed time-constrained processes or decentralisable, formal processes employees have to question this information , especially if problems arise. The adequate visualisation and navigation of this information is a reason for the fact that persons responsible for processes can quickly orientate themselves to be able to react adequately in an altered situation. This contribution develops a model for the simulation and visualisation of the collaboration in such situations by means of semantic nets and Web3D.