Performance Measurement In Production Internet: An Ecosystemic Perspective

Production Internet goes beyond the peer-to-peer networking, by embodying vertical and horizontal integration. It applies large scale coordination of operations, by merging the control of individual workflows and homeostatic governance. Implementing these functionalities requires adaptive and evolutionary mechanisms. For this purpose performance measurement can be applied. Firstly, the measures used to match vendors and clients or offerings and demands, are discussed, then those applied to aid the adaptive control of operations. Finally, the paper investigates such performance metrics that can support homeostasis and evolutionary mechanisms. The proposed use of performance measurement relies on predefined functional setup and reference architecture of Production Internet. As for the virtual subdomain, it considers both condition based decision making and reconfiguring the rules of operative control. What regards the real subdomain it presumes individual self-operated adaptation of the actors. (C) 2018, IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) Hosting by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.