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specifically developed for a certain building. Similarly, the construction and set-
up of automated manufacturing systems can be considered related as well. Flexible
manufacturing systems (FMS) consisting of an arrangement of machines intercon-
nected by a transportation system allow customers to build products in small lot
sizes and high numbers of variants at the same time [ 5] . Again, each installa-
tion at a customer is unique. The characteristics of subdomains such as milling
and turning or sheet metal processing can exactly be captured by appropriate
domain models. Model-based approaches to the configuration of FMS control
software have been proposed [ 6] but up to now do not tie in with require-
ments engineering nor provide means to incorporate domain knowledge easily.
A domain-model based approach to requirements engineering as presented here
is thus claimed to be valuable for requirements engineering within customer-
and project-oriented, innovative engineering disciplines. This claim needs to
be confirmed via additional case studies, for example in the above mentioned
fields.
Acknowledgments This research was in part funded by the German Ministry of Education and
Research (BMBF) on the project ZAMOMO “Integrating model-based software and control sys-
tems engineering”, grant 01 IS E04. Thanks to our project partners Dirk Abel, Peter Drews, Frank
J. Heßeler, Stefan Kowalewski, Jacob Palczynski, Andreas Polzer, and Michael Reke.
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