The
following are educational or industry bodies who are doing research and
development of Enterprise Models and/or Enterprise Integration.
Aachen University
Information Systems Department
is carrying out projects in Databases and Meta-Databases,
Process-Integrated Information Systems, and Information Systems in
Chemical Engineering.
CIFE
Center
for Integrated Facility Engineering at Stanford University. This group
is in the forefront of engineering design software and their annual
summer
program is a great way to find out what is going on in
automation of plant engineering.
Enterprise
Integration Clearing House
at Griffith University in Brisbane Australia. Peter Bernus of Griffith
has been involved in PERA and GERAM development for many years.
Enterprise
Intergation Laboratory at the University of Toronto is an
excellent source of information on ontological models, PERA, and much
more...
Enterprise
Project at the Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute
in Edinburough.
IMS
Intelligent Manufacturing Systems project is "an industry-led,
international research and development program established in 1995 to
develop the next generation of manufacturing and process technologies".
A listing
of IMS projects includes both completed and endorsed
programs, each of which presents its results on their individual
website.
Laboratory
for Automation and Industrial Control
Purdue University. This group was responsible for the initial
development of PERA under the direction of Dr. Ted Williams, a former Professor Emeritus (now retired.)
Zachman
Institute for Framework Advancement
ZIFA is a private institute, rather than a public or industry body.
ZIFA has been used by several large corporations as an "Enterprise
Integration Framework". It shares several PERA concepts including
strong project "phasing", and standard definitions of documentation
formats and deliverables, however ZIFA does not specifically address
human roles and interfaces.