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| Company Profile |
The Heinz Nixdorf Institut (HNI)
is an interdisciplinary research centre for Computer
Science and technology at the University of Paderborn,
Germany. More than 150 professors, researchers, technical
and administrative staff work in seven departments. The
department of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, the
partner in this project, focuses on the improvement of
the enterprises product development process and its
technical support. The department is involved in national
and international activities on engineering networks,
part libraries, design methodologies, Virtual Reality and
frameworks for engineering applications.
HNI was a partner in the European project
CONSENS that aims to support distributed, concurrent and
simultaneous engineering processes by providing advanced
technologies for system, data and process integration.
The HNI was also a partner in the JCF Project which was
designed as an integrated engineering platform, offering
process and data management and is a platform for the
integration of engineering tools. The University of
Paderborn plays a leading role in the GENIAL ESPRIT
project, which covers the use and development of
information highway technology for the use in the
engineering domain.
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Contribution
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The HNI is founder of several national
and international initiatives for tool integration in the
engineering domain. In several research projects the HNI
has developed a scenario of integrated engineering
systems based on a open object-oriented CORBA
architecture. The integration of legacy systems,
especially in the engineering domain, has to be regarded
as crucial as most users have to use existing software
systems. A common semantic definition of applications
communication interfaces is still missing and must be
developed for tool integration. The HNI contributes its
experience of legacy tool integration to the definition
of Business Objects Facilities and the definition of
Common Business Objects and to develop a technology for
legacy tool integration in a Open Business Objects
Environment. Additional the HNI has strong experience in
the realisation of distributed object-oriented systems. |
| Web site |
hni.uni-paderborn.de |
SEL, June 11, 1999
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