Kurt Kosanke (born ca. 1945) is a German

engineer Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the l ...

, retired IBM manager, director of the

AMICE Consortium CIMOSA, standing for "Computer Integrated Manufacturing Open System Architecture", is an enterprise modeling framework, which aims to support the enterprise integration of machines, computers and people. The framework is based on the system life c ...

and consultant, known for his work in the field of

enterprise engineering Enterprise engineering is the body of knowledge, principles, and practices used to design all or part of an enterprise.R.E. Giachetti (2010). ''Design of Enterprise Systems: Theory, Methods, and Architecture''. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. An enterpri ...

Enterprise integration Enterprise integration is a technical field of enterprise architecture, which is focused on the study of topics such as system interconnection, electronic data interchange, product data exchange and distributed computing environments. It is a c ...

and

CIMOSA CIMOSA, standing for "Computer Integrated Manufacturing Open System Architecture", is an enterprise modeling framework, which aims to support the enterprise integration of machines, computers and people. The framework is based on the system life c ...

.Arturo Molina, José M. Sánchez, Andrew Kusiak (1998) ''Handbook of Life Cycle Engineering: Concepts, Models and Technologies''. p. 234

Life and work

Kosanke obtained his Engineering degree from the Physikalisch Technische Lehranstalt in

Lübeck Lübeck (; Low German also ), officially the Hanseatic City of Lübeck (german: Hansestadt Lübeck), is a city in Northern Germany. With around 217,000 inhabitants, Lübeck is the second-largest city on the German Baltic coast and in the stat ...

, Germany, nowadays the Private Berufsfachschule PTL Wedel. He started his career in research and development at IBM Deutschland in

Böblingen Böblingen (; Swabian German, Swabian: ''Beblenga'') is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, seat of Böblingen (district), Böblingen District. Sindelfingen and Böblingen are Geographic contiguity, contiguous. History Böblingen was found ...

working on the instrument development of optical printers and large-scale displays. In the 4 years at IBM USA he worked on production control, material logistics, and back in Germany focussed on manufacturing research and simulation. In 1984 Kosanke started participating in the ESPRIT AMICE project as IBM Deutschland representative, focussing on

enterprise modelling Enterprise modelling is the abstract representation, description and definition of the structure, processes, information and resources of an identifiable business, government body, or other large organization. It deals with the process of underst ...

and CIM Open Systems Architecture. After IBM retirement Kosanke kept working as independent consultant, directed the AMICE project of the

, and became Director of the CIMOSA Association. Kosanke took part in the IFIP IFAC Task Force on Architectures for Enterprise Integration, and contributed to the development of

GERAM Generalised Enterprise Reference Architecture and Methodology (GERAM) is a generalised enterprise architecture framework for enterprise integration and business process engineering. It identifies the set of components recommended for use in enterpr ...

Peter Bernus Peter Bernus (born 1949) is a Hungarian Australian scientist and Associate Professor of Enterprise Architecture at the School of Information and Communication Technology, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.

, Laszlo Nemes, Günter Schmidt (2003) ''Handbook on Enterprise Architecture''. p. 21

Publications

Kosanke has published numerous papers in the fields Enterprise engineering. Enterprise integration and CIMOSA since the late 1980s Books: * 1997. ''Enterprise engineering and integration : building international consensus : proceedings of ICEIMT ʾ97, International Conference on Enterprise Integration and Modeling Technology, Torino, Italy, October 28–30, 1997''. Edited with James G. Nell. Springer. * 2002. ''Enterprise Inter- and Intra-Organizational Integration: Building International Consensus''. Springer, 30 nov. 2002 Articles, a selection: * 1995.
CIMOSA - Overview and status
" ''Computers in Industry'' Vol 27. p. 101-109 * 1995.
The CIMOSA business modelling process
. With Martin Zelm and

François Vernadat François B. Vernadat (born 1954) is a French and Canadian computer scientist, who has contributed to Enterprise Modelling, Integration and Networking over the last 25 years specialising in enterprise architectures, business process modelling, in ...

in ''Computers in Industry''. Vol 27. p. 123-142 * 1999. "CIMOSA: enterprise engineering and integration." With Martin Zelm and

in ''Computers in industry'' Vol 40 (2). p. 83-97 * 2001.
A Modelling Language for User oriented Enterprise Modelling
, With Martin Zelm in: ''MOSIM'01, Troyes, France'' * 2006.
ISO Standards for Interoperability: a comparison.
''Interoperability of Enterprise Software and Applications''. Springer London, p. 55-64.

References

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