SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE WITHIN A MANUFACTURING EXECUTION SYSTEM

摘要

A graphical user interface for a manufacturing execution system (MES) wherein a client application builder tool (CAB) enables a user to display MES screens and customize MES applications and/or proprietary applications. A MES database contains required data stemming from a production process to be displayed on the MES screens. Specification data are determined in a configuration file with a meta-data fixed structure enabling the generation of a configuration interface. A dynamically built and WEB-technology based GUI configuration tool is executed, calling the specification data and offering the user the configuration interface within the GUI configuration tool to create the GUI according to the specification data. The configuration interface is generated by using the meta-data fixed structure. The graphical user interface is created according to data entries made to the configuration interface. The data from the MES database are filled into the respective data fields, creating the MES screens.

主权项

1. A method for creating a graphical user interface within a manufacturing execution system (MES), the method comprising:
a) providing a client application builder tool (CAB) enabling a user to display MES screens and customize MES applications and/or proprietary applications by use of the graphical user interface, b) providing an MES database containing required data to be displayed on the MES screens; c) storing data stemming from a production process controlled by the manufacturing executions system to the MES data base; d) determining at least one set of specification data in a configuration file, the set of specification data having a meta-data fixed structure enabling a generation of a configuration interface; e) executing a dynamically built and WEB technology-based graphical user interface (GUI) configuration tool, wherein the GUI configuration tool calls the specification data in the configuration file and offers the user the configuration interface within the GUI configuration tool in order to create the graphical user interface according to the specification data; f) generating the configuration interface by use of the meta-data fixed structure; g) creating the graphical user interface according to data entries made to the configuration interface, thereby determining an appearance of respective data fields in the graphical user interface; and h) filling the data from the MES database into the respective data fields in the graphical user interface to thereby create the MES screens.