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
MRP II/ Planning
Corporate  When/What to make
ERP
 Planned/standard lead times/
batch, yields/wastes/costs
production planning, production run
scheduling reporting or
completion Execution
 Production management/tracking
Plant MES - WIP, equipment, operators
 Production scheduling
actual process conditons,
 Quality control/SQC
completion of process steps
recipes
and operations, performance  Costing
process setpoints
of equipment and raw  Maintenance
operating instructions  Management functions -
material and operator
actions Communications, reporting

Robots/ Control
PLC  Ladder logic
AGV
 Continuous feedback
 PID
 Advanced control
DCS
ERP-MES-Control Data Flow
Planning Execution Control
Proce ss In stru ctionRecipes,
s: Monitoring & Sensing
MPRII/ERP MES Work Instruct ions, P art P rograms,
P roduct Demand Process
Order Specific, Machine
BOM/Formula/Recipe/Drawing
Forecasting Resource Alloc./Status Ut ilizat ion, W ork Cert ificat ion Equipment
/P art P rogram
Requirement s Environment
Costing Resources Operations Scheduling O pe rator In stru ctionScheduled
s:
Production Planning Rout ing/P rocess
Production Dispatching Labor
(predict ive) & P revent at ive
Labor Charact eristics Material
Product Definition Document Control Maint enance,
Inventory St at us
Process Definition SOP , HEALT H, W ORK Instruct ions Data Collection/Acq. Material Safety Inst ructions Control
(documents), Machine Operat ion
SOP Labor Management Machine Control
Instruct ions (document s)
Human Resources WIP Status/Traceability Regulatory Control
Inventory Management Order St atus/COmpletions Quality Management Dril l Down (i n qui rie s) S tatu s Realtime QC
/St art-Due-End Proce ss S tatu s Advanced Process Controls
Purchasing Resource St atus/Usage
Performance Analysis Batch En d Re ports
Distribution Labor Status/Usage Process Management Operations
Material St at us/Usage Product Tracking Ad Hoc In qu i re s Process Sequencing
Actual BOM/Formula/Recipe/ and Genealogy Materi al s An alysis Machine & Process Instructions
Drawing/P art P rogram Eve n ts: T ime/Date/Lot/Alarms
Maintenance Labor Instructions
Actual Routing/P rocess Data C ol le cte d from Mon i tori n g
P roduct Genealogy/T raceability Management Human Machine Interfacing
Fu n ction s:P rocess, Equipment,
/As Built Information Environment, Labor, Mat erial, P roduct Safety
Scrap/Wast e P arameters Maintenance

Focus: Focus: Focus:

Customer Product Process
Decision Location: Decision Location: Decision Location:
Office Factory Shop Floor/Plant Floor

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 MES Technology Model
SCM SSM
API API
S yste m s S yste m s
Current MES
ERP P/PE
S yste m s
API API
S yste m s
architecture
MES Functional Logic incorporates a data
Le gacy model and
API API C on trols
S yste m s communication
Data Model
(Relational or Other) mechanism per
vendor’s system –
Back M essa ging
Data
Warehouse
Tool s which could represent
O ffi ce (O LAP)
Data Communications one or many MES
functions, plus APIs for
interfacing to external
Data Std./Translation
(ODBC) systems and EDI to link
EDI EDI outside the corporation.

API Database
Subcontractors
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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 Product Description
CAMSTAR ControlVision Equipment control software
CAMSTAR MESA MES
COMPAQ PROMIS, PROMIS Encore! MES, CIM
Consilium Workstream DFS MES
Fastech Integration CellWork, FactoryWorks, Automation level software
SPCWorks, WinSECS and MES
IBM SuperPOSEIDON/SiView CIM framework
PRI Automation Transet Automation control software
Texas Instruments WORKS CIM framework
Wonderware Intrack MES
Software
MES Suppliers
Company Product General Key Target Hardware Database Operating
Industry Markets Platforms Systems
COMPAQ PROMIS batch process, semiconductor, DEC DEC RMS, Open VMS,
repetitive electronics VAX/ALPHA, Oracle VMS, Digital
HP-UX UNIX, HP-UX
COMPAQ PROMIS batch process, semiconductor, Windows NT, Oracle Windows
Encore! repetitive electronics UNIX 95/NT, UNIX
Consilium Workstream batch process, semiconductor, DEC Informix, VAX, HP-UX
DES repetitive electronics VAX/APLHA,, Oracle
UP-UX
IBM POSEIDON/ batch process, semiconductor, IBM DB2 AIX
SiView repetitive electronics /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!