Nowadays, enterprises are confronted to growing needs for traceability,product genealogy and product life cycle management. To meet those needs, theenterprise and applications in the enterprise environment have to manage flowsof information that relate to flows of material and that are managed in shopfloor level. Nevertheless, throughout product lifecycle coordination needs tobe established between reality in the physical world (physical view) and thevirtual world handled by manufacturing information systems (informationalview). This paper presents the "Holon" modelling concept as a means for thesynchronisation of both physical view and informational views. Afterwards, weshow how the concept of holon can play a major role in ensuringinteroperability in the enterprise context.
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