Manufacturing Execution System

Oliver L. Hung 11-09-2003

Definition

MES are at the heart of CIM. The simplest model of CIM has MES as the middle ground between ERP systems and individual machine and automation controls ERP systems handle financial functions, customer orders and send production requests to the factory floor. MES provide overall control and management of the factory floor, and provide updated information the ERP. (Semiconductor International 1997)

Relationship
Corporate
production planning, scheduling

MRP II/ ERP

batch, production run reporting or completion

Planning
When/What to make Planned/standard lead times/ yields/wastes/costs

Execution
Production management/tracking - WIP, equipment, operators Production scheduling Quality control/SQC Costing Maintenance Management functions Communications, reporting

Plant
recipes process setpoints operating instructions

MES
actual process conditons, completion of process steps and operations, performance of equipment and raw material and operator actions

PLC

Robots/ AGV

Control
Ladder logic Continuous feedback PID Advanced control

DCS

ERP-MES-Control Data Flow

Planning
MPRII/ERP
Forecasting Costing Production Planning Product Definition Process Definition SOP Human Resources Inventory Management Purchasing Distribution
P roduct Demand BOM/Formula/Recipe/Drawing /P art P rogram Resources Routing/P rocess Labor Characteristics Inventory Status SOP , HEALTH, WORK Instructions

Execution
MES
Resource Alloc./Status Operations Scheduling Production Dispatching Document Control Data Collection/Acq. Labor Management WIP Status/T raceability Quality Management Performance Analysis Process Management Product T racking and Genealogy Maintenance Management
Process Instructions:Recipes, Work Instructions, P art P rograms, Order Specific, Machine Utilization, Work Certification Requirements Operator Instructions:Scheduled (predictive) & P reventative Maintenance, Material Safety Instructions (documents), Machine Operation Instructions (documents) Drill Down (inquiries) Status Process Status B atch End Reports Ad Hoc Inquires Materials Analysis Events: Time/Date/Lot/Alarms Data Collected f rom Monitoring Functions: P rocess, Equipment, Environment, Labor, Material, P roduct P arameters

Control
Monitoring & Sensing
Process Equipment Environment Labor Material

Control
Machine Control Regulatory Control Realtime QC Advanced Process Controls

Order Status/COmpletions /Start-Due-End Resource Status/Usage Labor Status/Usage Material Status/Usage Actual BOM/Formula/Recipe/ Drawing/P art P rogram Actual Routing/P rocess P roduct Genealogy/Traceability /As Built Information Scrap/Waste

Operations
Process Sequencing Machine & Process Instructions Labor Instructions Human Machine Interfacing Safety Maintenance Focus: Process Decision Location: Shop Floor/Plant Floor

Focus: Customer Decision Location: Office

Focus: Product Decision Location: Factory

MESA International-White Paper

MES Technology Model

SCM Systems ERP Systems Legacy Systems API API SSM Systems P/PE Systems API API

MES Functional Logic

API API

Controls

Data Model
(Relational or Other)

B ack Of fice

M essagi ng

Data Communications

Data Warehouse

Tools (OLAP)

Data Std./Translation (ODBC)

EDI

EDI

Current MES architecture incorporates a data model and communication mechanism per vendors system which could represent one or many MES functions, plus APIs for interfacing to external systems and EDI to link outside the corporation.

API

Database

Subcontractors
MESA International-White Paper

Application

MES Functions

Resource Allocation and Status Operations/Detail Scheduling Dispatching Production Units Document Control Data Collection/Acquisition Labor Management Quality Management Process Management Maintenance Management Product Tracking and Genealogy Performance Analysis

Software
MES Suppliers
Company CAMSTAR CAMSTAR MESA Product ControlVision MES Description Equipment control software

COMPAQ
Consilium Fastech Integration

PROMIS, PROMIS Encore!

Workstream DFS CellWork, FactoryWorks, SPCWorks, WinSECS

MES, CIM
MES Automation level software and MES

IBM
PRI Automation Texas Instruments Wonderware

SuperPOSEIDON/SiView
Transet WORKS Intrack

CIM framework
Automation control software CIM framework MES

Software
MES Suppliers
Company
COMPAQ

Product
PROMIS

General Industry
batch process, repetitive batch process, repetitive batch process, repetitive

Key Target Markets

semiconductor, electronics semiconductor, electronics semiconductor, electronics

Hardware Platforms
DEC VAX/ALPHA, HP-UX Windows NT, UNIX DEC VAX/APLHA,, UP-UX

Database
DEC RMS, Oracle Oracle Informix, Oracle

Operating Systems
Open VMS, VMS, Digital UNIX, HP-UX Windows 95/NT, UNIX VAX, HP-UX

COMPAQ Consilium

PROMIS Encore! Workstream DES

IBM

POSEIDON/ SiView

batch process, repetitive

semiconductor, electronics

IBM

DB2

AIX /Windows NT

Major Products

Consilium HP-Compaq IBM

Consilium-Applied Materials

WorkStream MES I functionality provides solutions in five main areas:

Process Tracking and Monitoring Automation and Integration Quality and Engineering Management Scheduling and Dispatching Reporting and Data Warehousing

Consilium-Applied Materials

FAB300 MES II

IBM

SiView

Object-oriented applications a strength of SiView Standard.

Scheduling Specification Manager Materials Manager Quality Manager Automation Manager Common Object Support Services (COSS) from IBM Event Notification Services Business Object Server Systems Management

eProduction

HP-Compaq

SemiSuite

PROMIS ENCORE!