Enterprise Engineering Methods
Enterprise engineering involves formal methodologies, methods and techniques which are designed, tested and used extensively in order to offer organizations reusable business process solutions:
- Computer Integrated Manufacturing Open Systems Architecture (CIMOSA) methodology
- Integrated DEFinition (IDEF) methodology
- Petri Nets
- Unified Modeling Language (UML) or Unified Enterprise Modeling Language (UEML)
- Enterprise Function Diagrams (EFD)
These methodologies, techniques and methods are all more or less suited to modeling an enterprise and its underlying processes.
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