Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090076785 | System and method for handling a dependency between two product segments of a process modeling a production system - A system for handling a dependency between two product segments of a process modeling a production system within a manufacturing execution system (MES) includes a network and a production modeler. The network has data processing units running a MES software for controlling and/or monitoring a production process operating a production components. The production modeler within the MES software defines the dependency between the two product segments, and allows modeling the dependency in a graphical environment as a link between the two product segments. The link is selected from a tool box having link types, each defining one of predetermined dependencies, such as: the two product segments run in parallel, one of the product segments starts after end of the other product segment, one of the product segments starts with a predetermined delay after the other product segment has been started, both two product segments use an identical equipment. | 03-19-2009 |
20100268365 | METHOD FOR MANAGING PRODUCT SEGMENTS OF PRODUCT PRODUCTION RULES - An effective method for managing product segments of product production rules within a manufacturing execution system adapted for providing a final product includes the following steps: a) each one of a plurality of sets of product segments are associated within one of a set of product production rules which are stored in a database under a reference standard product production rule (like a simple “manufacture of a car”); b) a command (e.g. from an operator) is inputted to the database for performing one of following selectable operations: i) add a new product segment; ii) remove one of previous product segment; iii) replace a previous product segment by a new one; c) a further set of new product production rules comprising previous product segments and a further product segment (related to the selectable operation and automatically detected in each product production rule) are introduced in the database; d) an indicator related to the selected operation (i, ii, iii) is inserted in said new product production rule. Finally, e) an algebraic operation is performed on all product segments of both the reference standard product production rule and the new product production rules (for example it performs an addition of the product segments), so that the algebraic operation delivers a final standard product production rule resulting from one of the selected operations of adding i), removing ii), replacing iii). | 10-21-2010 |
20110224814 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A MANUFACTURING PROCESS - A method and a system control a manufacturing process of a plant via a MES system. The MES system is provided with a catalogue of a tool model, the catalogue of the tool model contains tool entities and tool methods on the tool entities. The tool entities contain engineering-time tool entities and run-time tool entities and the tool methods contain engineering-time tool methods and run-time tool methods. At engineering time or at run time, via a tool manager, the tool model catalogue is exposed and information on the tool model data is stored in a database. At engineering time, the specific engineering-time tool entities are defined by invoking engineering-time tool methods. At run time the specific tool entities are instantiated into run-time tool objects and the manufacturing process is controlled relative to physical plant tools by invoking the run-time tool methods on the run-time tool objects. | 09-15-2011 |
20130166612 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EXECUTING DATABASE INSERT CALLS IN A MES SYSTEM - A method and a system execute database insert calls in a MES system. The data to be stored into the database are represented in XML tree formats according to the S95 hierarchy model. The method includes: a) receiving as input a given XML tree corresponding to a given S95 hierarchy data to stored into the database; b) processing the given XML tree in order to generate a corresponding parallel structure; c) getting a given S95 entity type and its given set of node references from the given parallel structure; d) if the given set of node references is not empty, composing a database insert call passing the information of the given set of node references; e) if the given set of node references is not empty, executing the composed database insert call; and executing items c) to e) for all the S95 entity types of the given parallel structure. | 06-27-2013 |
20130245805 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PRODUCT FOR CONTROLLING A MANUFACTURING PROCESS - A method and a system control a manufacturing process. The method includes providing an MES system with a product definition model having at least one product-related entity. Define for one product-related entity a set of product-related entities referencing the one product-related entity and each other via a nested structure. Define for each product-related entity a set of product-related parameters to define the information that may be sent to the MES system. Within the product definition model, define an additional entity called parameter exchange definition for providing a tool for defining how data of product-related parameters of nested product-related entities and of the parent product related entity are to be exchanged among each other. At engineering time, build the given product definition of the given final material by inserting the entities. At run time, instantiating the entities into run-time production requests objects obtained by the given product definition. | 09-19-2013 |
20140012405 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HANDLING CONDITIONAL DEPENDENCIES BETWEEN ALTERNATIVE PRODUCT SEGMENTS WITHIN A MANUFACTURING EXECUTION SYSTEM ANSI/ISA/95 COMPLIANT - A system handles conditional dependencies between alternative product segments of a production process modeled within a manufacturing execution system (MES). The system includes data processing units connected to a network and production components. The data processing units run MES software for controlling and monitoring the process. The MES software includes a production modeler embedding time-sensitive dependency information in each product segment to define the start of execution in relation to another product segment. The production modeler embeds in each product segment programmed for alternative execution conditional dependency information and a sequence attribute about the order of evaluation of the specified condition. The MES software, during execution of a product segment preceding alternative executions, checks the condition specified as first in the set of sequence attributes and, if that condition is satisfied, executes the product segment corresponding with that condition, otherwise iterates the check for execution until a condition is satisfied. | 01-09-2014 |
20140067105 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR HANDLING BATCH PRODUCTION WITHIN ANSI/ISA/95 PRODUCTION SCHEDULING EXTENDED WITH BATCH PRODUCTION PARAMETER HISTORIAN - We add a new entity Production Parameter History to the ISA-95 Production Schedule Model, thereby extending the model. The new entity stores the recent history of the values assumed by a subset of batch parameters most relevant for production control and resource planning, thus without the ERP system being charged with retrieving the historian from a log or from a warehouse in order to schedule the plant production. Putting together the batch information present in the ISA-95 Segment Requirement and the new Production Parameter History, the MES creates and stores a fully Electronic Batch Record close to a real situation found during product manufacturing. The MES system can provide the Electronic Batch Record to the ERP system through the ISA-95 Production Performance model extended thereof, since a production performance report is made up of a set of one or more Production Responses associated with Production Requests. | 03-06-2014 |
20150153722 | ASYNCHRONOUS GENERATION OF A PRODUCTION REQUEST FOR THE PRODUCTION OF A PRODUCT ACCORDING TO A CUSTOMER REQUEST - A method produces a product that is executed by a manufacturing execution system. A product production rule is provided and contains a plurality of product segments defining all the resources required. A customer request is received and a production request for the execution of the production according to the customer request is created. The production request copies a workflow of abstracted resources representing the workflow of production steps. The production is executed by applying the production request and asynchronously to the creation of the production request adding the resource which replaces the abstracted resource related to the first production step from the production rule to the production request thereby only copying the actually used resource into the production request and executing the respective production step on that resource. The production of the product is executed repeatedly stepwise until all abstracted resources have been replaced in the workflow. | 06-04-2015 |
20150153723 | Method, system and computer readable medium for managing design updates in a manufacturing execution system - In a method and a system for managing product definition updates for controlling a manufacturing process via a MES system, design information entities each defining manufacturing specifications for a specific product and including sets of data concerning different manufacturing steps are downloaded to the MES system. At the first download, first and second MES information entities are created and stored. The first entities have associated second entities each including data for a manufacturing step and include links to the associated second entities. At each update of a design information entity, a differential package including the whole of the data for a set having undergone changes and for newly added sets, and an identification for unchanged sets, is downloaded. A new version of the second entities corresponding to sets having undergone changes and/or additional second entities corresponding to sets of data that have been added are created and stored. | 06-04-2015 |