Process Mining, Analysis and Management
A Business Process (BP) contains a set of activities in an organizational environment to achieve a business goal.
Business Process Managemen (BPM) consists of principles, methods, and tools that integrate management sciences, Information Technology (IT), and industrial engineering. In fact, BPM supports the life cycle of BP. In this case, Business Process Management System (BPMS) can be used as a software tool for the technical support of BPM.
BPMS architecture includes several components employed to hold up the BP life cycle. These
components include a main component entitled process engine, which is applied for executing modeled BPs with a specific modeling language.
Another key component is a user interface that interacts between users and the process engine for process management. Also, control and monitoring of processes are other functions of inward BPMS. These processes can be done by data extraction from executed process instances. In this case, they have been considered to decide in the context of BPs optimal execution.
These operations can be performed through a new group of techniques, such as process mining. Process mining uses digital traces of processes to understand their visualizations and measure the performance of BP.
The techniques like process mining have been applied as an appropriate tool in BPM to enrich the management of the smart factory in various aspects.
Process mining is a collective name for all data-driven process analysis techniques
