system integration

Already today intelligent functions based on microsystems technologies can be found in many applications of everybody’s daily life. Mobile phones are called smart phones. They are equipped with digital cameras, music players, game consoles and PDA’s. Cars are getting more and more intelligent due to self controlled operation and adaptive safety systems. Japan, USA and Europe belong to the first research and de-velopment sites worldwide. Key factors for successful products will be system integration, miniaturisation and last but not least transdisciplinary technology approaches. Thereby the gap has to be bridged between the nanometer and micrometer scale of the components and the customer’s macro world. Smart Systems technologies and their integration will therefore have a significant impact on the competitiveness of entire sectors as aeronautics, automotives, security, logistics, medical technology and process engineering.

Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) is an approach to improve system interoperability in a business process oriented fashion. The described empirical research study examines the impact of the general organizational understanding, the manner of implementation and deployment of EAI projects on the enterprise architecture. The article illustrates the results and introduces some advice how to improve the recognized issues of the EAI situation in real life context.

More than ever individualized products which come up to the exact customer wishes are in great demand. This statement also applies to the automobile market especially to vehicles of the upper class. Because the manufacturer offer a great supply of individual packages nearly every customer wish can be realized. If you look at this development from a company’s disposition point of view you notice that the biggest problem is the management of the variety of variants which partly go almost ad infinitum. In the following an approach should be shown for the reduction or rather the complete avoidance of the complexity through the use of a special product configuration system which is decoupled from the actual product model.