The fractal factory
Future-oriented & highly adaptable factory organization
Xyna is based on the newest cognitions in the organization of modern, adaptable industrial manufacturing. Central idea of the Xyna Factory is to realize the production of services as a factory.
Thereby, the factory organization is based on the basic principles of the fractal factory, a production model developed at the Fraunhofer-Institut für Produktionstechnik und Automatisierung (IPA, Fraunhofer institute of production technology and automation), which is successfully implemented worldwide.
The aim is an order-related, adaptable manufacturing with focus on customer-related business cases like reservation, activation, modification, cancellation and rectification as well as the correspondent operational processes. The integration of manual interactions (Operations) as well as the customer-supplied self administration (Self-Care) play a central role.
The orders are processed in the factory by corresponding business processes which are realized through automated workflows.
The Xyna Factory exists of the following basic elements which are organized in a service-oriented architecture (SOA):
- The Xyna Factory Backbone is the core of the factory. The Backbone manages and supervises the implementation of the orders under the point of view of a global system optimization. Every Xyna Factory comes with a Factory Backbone.
- The Xyna Factory Departments form the departments of the factory. They serve for the implementation of certain functional-technical duties, as for example technical product management, Service-Provisioning or activation of net elements which they fulfill under the consideration of a local optimization.
- Every Factory Department consists of different Factory Sections which take over certain subtasks within a Department (e.g. Physical Provisioning and Transport Provisioning within the Service-Provisioning).
To reduce the complexity of the overall system and to raise the degree of reusability, the factory has a self similar – fractal – structure: By the fact that all components of the Xyna Factory are built up on the same mechanisms and the same superior software-architecture principle central advantages can be realized: Complexity reduction, modularity, system optimization, adaptivity and adaptability.