Mission

The CoBIs project will develop a new approach to business processes involving physical entities such as goods and tools in enterprise environments. The intention is to apply advances in networked systems to embed business logic in the physical entities. The goal is to create Collaborative Business Items (CoBIs) that make it possible to relate more closely the state of an enterprise as represented in business processes with what is actually happing in the real world.

CoBIs will make it possible to apply networked embedded systems technologies in large-scale business processes and enterprise systems by developing a platform for directly handling processes at the relevant point of action rather than in a centralized back-end system. Project objectives include modeling embedded business services, developing the collaborative and technology frameworks for CoBIs with necessary management support, and investigating and evaluating CoBIs in real world application trials in the oil and gas industry.

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