LINE MANAGEMENT IN MANUFACTURING EXECUTION SYSTEM

摘要

A manufacturing execution system (MES) that provides tools for modeling and determining information about physical production lines made up of arrangements of entities. The MES includes configuration tools for modeling the entities in a physical production line. The MES also includes configuration tools for modeling the physical production line. Entity data models and line data models conform to the data structure of respective model templates. Line data models include line definition models and line layout models. Line layout models include an entity link model for each of the entities in the physical production line. The MES includes tools for dynamically determining the bottleneck for the physical production line. Other production metrics are also calculated using the MES.

主权项

1. Software comprising processor-executable instructions stored in one or more tangible, non-transitory computer-readable media that when executed perform a method of providing a production metric about a physical production line comprising an arrangement of physical entities, said method comprising:
(a) presenting one or more interactive entity configuration views on a display of a workstation; (b) receiving user inputs to said one or more interactive entity configuration views, said user inputs including entity data representing one of said physical entities; (c) generating an entity data model from said entity data; (d) repeating steps (a) through (c) to generate an entity data model for each of the physical entities in the physical production line; (e) presenting one or more interactive line configuration views on said display of the workstation, at least one of said one or more interactive line configuration views having a work area and a palette of entity configuration objects, at least a plurality of said entity configuration objects representing said entity data models generated in steps (c) and (d); (f) receiving user inputs selecting said plurality of said entity configuration objects and placing them on the work area to create a graphical object model representing the physical production line, said graphical object model comprising an arrangement of entity objects representing said arrangement of physical entities; (g) generating a line data model based on said user inputs; (h) receiving production data about the physical entities; (i) determining a production metric of the physical production line using the production data and the line data model; and (j) displaying the production metric on said display.