Formalizing the Components of the Enterprise Actor Model (MADE)

Abstract

The Enterprise Actor Model (MADE) is the product of five years of research by the research group in development in Industrial Automation at the University of Cauca, Colombia. It is a model of enterprise integration developed specifically for production-sector businesses. It aims to represent the structure, behavior, organization and integration of the components of a production business, while establishing the information that flows among them. Achieving a successful application of this model to a particular production business would become a major contribution to the field of automation and enterprise integration. A series of works has developed around MADE that gradually allowed to add new features, definitions and concepts; however, the degree of formalization required to initiate the process of developing a methodology for implementation has not yet been achieved. This article focuses on formalizing the existing components of the Enterprise Actor Model which results in three basic elements of MADE: entities, nomenclature of entities, and models