Semiotics-based Manufacturing System Integration

G. D. Putnik, Editorial identifies semiotics as a candidate framework for a new MSI paradigm to extend the solution space of the MSI discipline with focus on use, interpretation and communication of and about technical solutions for MSI. Semiotics comprises syntax, semantic and pragmatics. Contrary to the first two the latter is totally unknown in the MSI discipline, but all three are used in information systems and to some extend even in enterprise integration. For MSI semiotics can be both an instrument and a meta-model of its science.