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===Computer Integrated Manufacturing Open Systems Architecture===

CIMOSA provides templates and interconnected modeling constructs to encode business, people and IT aspects of enterprise requirements. This is done from multiple perspectives; Information view, Function view, Resource view and Organization view. These constructs can further be used to structure and facilitate the design and implementation of detailed IT systems. Figure 2 shows a part of the so called CIMOSA cube, which provides a consistent and adequately structured modelling framework [8]. It shows the different views and corresponding relationships between for instance activities, objects and resources. The meanings of the modelling notations, the arrow and half-circle, are given on top.

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'''Figure 2: Part of the CIMOSA constructs (without organization view)'''

The division in different views makes it a clarifying reference for enterprise and software engineers. It shows information needs for different enterprise functionalities (activities, processes, operations) and corresponding resources. In this way it can easily be determined which IT-system will fulfill the information needs in a certain activity and process.

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