Affiliation:
1. Institute of Business Informatics—Communications Engineering, Johannes Kepler University Linz, 4040 Linz, Austria
Abstract
Industry 4.0 (I4.0) systems are often designed without sufficiently considering the needs of stakeholders and the organizational processes to be supported, leading to solutions that are socially and organizationally unsustainable. In this study, the notions of social and organizational sustainability were viewed from a micro-level perspective, referring to the ability of technology to sustain the concerns of people and work organization within the socio-technical system, as opposed to a macro-level perspective related to concerns outside the system. Through a literature review, this study shows that social and organizational sustainability is covered by principles originally proposed in agile software engineering. A set of core requirements for model-based design approaches were then derived from the agile principles, based on insights from design research and model theory. The requirements include (1) the coverage of function and behavior, (2) simplicity, (3) executability and (4) modularity. They were then used to evaluate an existing modeling approach—subject-oriented process modeling (S-BPM)—to demonstrate their applicability and usefulness.
Subject
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law,Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment,Geography, Planning and Development,Building and Construction
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