Patent ID: 6778863
Filing Date: 2004-08-17
Classification: G05B

Abstract:
An information technology system for designing and optimizing a computerized business or workflow real process of discrete events, comprising:a process model graphically picturing said discrete events of said real process on a display, said process model and said real process being coupled using an information technology interface; said process model being operable alternatively either (a) independently of said real process as simulation engine for designing and/or optimizing said process model or (b) connected to said real process for implementing said discrete events of the process model selectively into said real process whereby said process model provides an animated representation of said real process and is constructed from components visually representing the discrete events, which components animate the object flow in the process by visual connection in said process model and include predefined standard elements and/or application-specific elements being available from an electronic catalogue via a network, said standard elements and/or application-specific elements comprising one or more fundamental base elements.