What is object-centric process mining?
Object-centric process mining assigns an event to one or more business objects. Relationships between orders, materials, batches, handling units and deliveries remain available rather than being forced into one case ID.
Why one case ID can fail
One order can have many items, one delivery can combine orders and one material can move through batches and load carriers. Treating every object as a separate case duplicates shared events; selecting only one object removes context.
Object-centric event model
Events have an activity and time and reference the involved typed objects. Object relationships and changes remain traceable. Analysis can follow one object type or study interaction across types.
Industrial use cases
- Order-to-cash across order, item, delivery and invoice
- Production across order, material, batch and resource
- Intralogistics across mission, handling unit and vehicle
- Maintenance across asset, notification, order and spare part
Object identities, relationships and timestamp semantics still require business validation. OCPM is used where it answers a defined question better than a classic event log.
Object-centric process mining in practice: Our services overview brings together the relevant planning and consulting approaches.