OPC and CORBA in manufacturing execution systems: a review

Author

Blanco, Paulo Marcelo P A ; Poli, Marco A. ; Barretto, Marcos R Pereira

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mechatronics Eng., Sao Paulo Univ., Brazil

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

16-19 Sept. 2003

Firstpage

50

Abstract

While MES (manufacturing execution systems) are becoming increasingly more popular in the factory environment, the intrinsic hardware heterogeneity of equipment suppliers has always been a problem to their easy and cost-effective implementation. New distributed objects technologies now exist, both open and proprietary, operating system-dependent and independent, that can be used to solve this heterogeneity related problem. This work is intended to review the technologies of MES and new distributed objects, making a comparison of specifications, standards and commercial MES products based on each one. First, this work shows a general overview of MES and the potential of distributed objects applied to them: i.e. new concepts as intelligent sensors and other. Then, the two leading distributed object technologies will be reviewed: OPC/DCOM and CORBA. Finally, an industry survey focusing on commercial MES products and the distributed objects technology used by each one will be shown.

Keywords

distributed object management; factory automation; manufacturing systems; process control; CORBA; OLE for process control; OPC; distributed component object model; distributed objects technologies; equipment suppliers; factory environment; intelligent sensors; manufacturing execution systems; object linking and embedding; Business process re-engineering; Companies; Costs; Enterprise resource planning; Internet; Manufacturing industries; Mechatronics; Production facilities; Productivity; Resource management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, 2003. Proceedings. ETFA '03. IEEE Conference

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7937-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ETFA.2003.1248669

Filename

1248669