摘要 |
<p>A process and a system for controlling a manufacturing plant with a MES system, through the execution of a given workflow, comprising: a) providing a plant designer application for modelling a representation of the manufacturing plant through a set of equipment objects and through at least one workflow, b) providing a complex entity, called plugin, for expanding the characteristics of an equipment object; the plugin exposing an interface comprising a configuration, a set of property elements, a set of functionality elements; c) at engineering time, designing a set of plugins usable by the set of equipment objects; d) at engineering time, for at least one equipment object, associating at least one plugin; e) at engineering time, through the plant designer, defining a given workflow according to given customer requirements, said given workflow comprising at least one interaction with at least one element of at least one plugin associated to an equipment object; f) at runtime, executing the given workflow and performing the at least one interaction with the at least one element of the at least one plugin of the associated equipment object.</p> |