This paper introduces a way to combine both approaches,
CBFP and VPI, to improve factory planning. The integration
of an integrative information model into the underlying ITsystem
of the VPI enables the technical system to interact with
the user efficiently by using the domain specific models and
semantics of the CBFP. Thus, several challenges have to be
approached. At first, a robust and extendable information
model is necessary to facilitate the required analysis of
process dependencies during runtime. Furthermore, provided
data has to be mapped to the formalized information model.
Here, adaptive information integration is used so that data is
annotated with its semantic concepts during the integration
process and, as a result, can be interpreted by the system [7].
On this basis, key performance indicators (KPI) for
dependency analysis in factory planning are provided and
implemented in a software demonstrator along with the
analysis algorithms.