| 摘要 |
The present invention relates to a method for the management of Workcell System capable to control concurrent processes that use pieces of equipment, here called Resources, interacting each other according to the needs and the changes that have not been forecast in advance in their process cycles, by means of a continuous real-time re-scheduling of automatic tasks. Further relates to an Automation Management System. In an embodiment the method for the method for the management of Workcell Systems, using an Automation Management System to control a plurality of Resources, designated to handle Samples along said Workcell Systems to perform operations on said Samples, comprises the following steps: associating a Sample Protocol to each Sample, associating to each Resource a Resource Driver, capable to drive said Resource, each of said Resource Driver is controlled by a Process Controller and communicates with the other Resource Drivers by means of variables associated to each Resource, which define and modify the status of said Resources, executing said Sample Protocols by said Process Controller in a concurrent way, guaranteeing multi-threading, bottleneck avoidance, dynamic assignment of Resources in mutual exclusion, sample priority handling, Resource load balancing and automatic error recovery, automatically modifying said Sample Protocols by continuously re-scheduling automatic tasks on different Resources, according to the results of the execution of said Sample Protocols and the status of said variables, expressing the status of said Resources, and thus having an intelligent and reactive control of the workflow, automatically and dynamically taking the appropriate decisions.
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