Implementation of the Solution

Every time a process is completed, it creates data. For example, any time a customer service request is received, you know when the call was received, who handled it, how long it took, whether the issue was resolved, just to name a few. It could also include time-stamped logs of purchases made at a register. This generates a so called ‘event log’ files store in an ICT systems. Currently such dataset are parsed by simple analytics tools to understand some general trends – how long things take, the total volume of processes completed, who is handling what, etc. This is where a AI-powered process mining solution of PROMAS  comes in.  It provides novel insights that can be used to identify the executional path taken by operational processes and address their performance and compliance problems. The solution will be exploited as a digital service for all customers (manufacturing companies) that need to enhance and optimizes their maintenance service logistics processes. Process Mining solution includes three main components:

• Process Discovery: Process Discovery identifies the business processes, maps and analyzes an organization’s existing business processes, uncovers the process steps that they are not aware of, and realizes process deviations. A discovery technique takes an event log and produces a process model without using any prior information. The following algorithms will be investigated, and the best performing will be implemented: Alpha miner, heuristic miner, DFG miner, IFP miner, inductive miner.
• Conformance checking: is a technique to compare a process model of the actual process with an event log of SOP (Standard Operating Procedures) defined by the company. The goal is to check if the event log conforms to the model and vice versa.  The model derived from process mining is compared with the perceived process model based on SOP. To perform the comparison, a Business Process Modell Baseline (BPMB) is created based on the specific SOP and fed in to the PROMAS process mining  tool to identify deviations in factors such as path, time and cost.

Enhancement: The idea is to extend or improve an existing process model using information about the actual process recorded in the event log. This process has the capability aims at changing or extending the existing model.