A Measurement-Oriented Modelling Approach: Basic Concepts to Be Shared

Measurements represent a fundamental component of Enterprise Information Systems and they play a key role in organizations. Their own languages, concepts and techniques, concerning how to approach and solve problems in industrial scenarios, inevitably characterize these two disciplines. The practical meaning of metrological concepts is often partially or completely misunderstood, in particular the extended uncertainty and the confidence level, which both can supply useful support in business activities. After explaining their physical meaning, in this paper the question being posed is how to get a methodology that allows to analyze, model and implement software subsystems able to render really usable information concerning measurements, keeping their informative peculiarities unchanged. The final goal of our research is to define a Use Case-based methodology for modeling the informative content of measurements and their usage, that starts from the business model of an enterprise and achieves a software model able to satisfy users’ needs.