Balancing Between Integration and Distribution Paradigms: The Modelling Process of the European CMMS—IAMS Projects

Integration in Manufacturing which allows to make more efficient the plant operation through a rationalised automation involving not only the control but also the maintenance and the technical management islands, is not yet the reality despite the increasing of Information Technology capabilities. Indeed the industrial ways of thinking are changing slowly because they require standardised solutions and rationalised engineering process to move from automation hierarchical architectures to automation distributed ones.