In order to apply the idea of BI on the different IT
solutions of a manufacturing enterprise – and therefore
following the idea of the Digital Factory [16] – the term has to
be extended on the fields of management and on the
production level at the same time. According to [7], an
integrative solution to serve the desired interoperability
between heterogeneous, distributed systems was presented
with the adaptive information integration, which is the basis
for the VPI approach presented in this paper.