Industry-specific workflows in a manufacturing execution system with premier integration

US9953280B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc. · US

Inventors

• David Cooper · Palo Alto, US
• Kevin Chao · Mountain View, US
• Keith Chambers · Scotts Valley, US
• Richard Sze · Saratoga, US
• Crisler Moor · San Jose, US
• Brandon E. Henning · Palmyra, US
• Suryanarayana Murthy Bobba · Los Altos, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 14, 2012
• Grant date: Apr 24, 2018
• Expiry date: Apr 5, 2034

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G05B2219/31432
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) is provided that leverages industry-specific workflows to process business requests. The MES system can maintain activity sets representing industry-specific workflows that can be selected and executed in order to satisfy business-driven goals. The activity sets can comprise both business-level and control-level operations, and can be configured using an intuitive graphical interface that mitigates the need for low-level programming by the end user. Some features of the MES system are enabled or disabled based on data type compatibility with devices in communication with the MES system.