Kurt Kosanke (born ca. 1945) is a German
engineer
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, retired IBM manager, director of the
AMICE Consortium
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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 enterpr ...
,
Enterprise integration
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It is a con ...
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 ...
.
[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
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, Germany, nowadays the
Private Berufsfachschule PTL Wedel
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He started his career in research and development at
IBM
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Deutschland in
Böblingen
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History
Böblingen was founded by Count Wilhelm von Tübingen-Bö ...
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
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and
CIM Open Systems Architecture.
After IBM retirement Kosanke kept working as independent consultant, directed the AMICE project 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 ...
, 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
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.
Peter Bernus
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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, Enterprise Integration and Networking over the last 40 years specialising in Enterprise Architectures, business process mod ...
in ''Computers in Industry''. Vol 27. p. 123-142
* 1999. "CIMOSA: enterprise engineering and integration." With Martin Zelm and
François Vernadat
François B. Vernadat (born 1954) is a French and Canadian computer scientist, who has contributed to Enterprise Modelling, Enterprise Integration and Networking over the last 40 years specialising in Enterprise Architectures, business process mod ...
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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Living people
Engineers from Schleswig-Holstein
Enterprise modelling experts
Systems engineers
1940s births
IBM employees
Year of birth missing (living people)