CIMOSA

Standardized CIMOSA models "can also be used on line in the manufacturing enterprise for scheduling, dispatching, monitoring and providing process information".

CIMOSA models enterprises using four perspectives:[7] AMICE Consortium was a European organization of major companies concerned with computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM).

[8] Among the participating companies were IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), Siemens, Fiat, and Daimler-Benz.

This led to the development of the CIMOSA, which defined "a comprehensive set of constructs sufficient to describe all aspects of manufacturing systems.

This real-time knowledge needed to support the establishment, deployment and discontinuation of the inter and intra organisational relations".

CIMOSA cube: The basics of the reference architecture from which a particular architecture is developed. [ 1 ]