OpenMES: scalable manufacturing execution framework based on distributed object computing

Author

Hori, Masahiro ; Kawamura, Tateo ; Okano, Akira

Author_Institution

Res. Lab., IBM Japan Ltd., Tokyo, Japan

Volume

6

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

398

Abstract

Presents OpenMES (Open Manufacturing Execution Systems), which is an object-oriented framework for the development of manufacturing execution systems dedicated to discrete manufacturing. The design goals of OpenMES are to make it extensible by means of modular and composable organization, and to realize open connectivity, not only with other software systems but also with manufacturing devices. The OpenMES framework is realized as a distributed object system based on the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) and implemented in Java. In a preliminary performance evaluation, OpenMES demonstrated its scalability as the numbers of production lots and manufacturing devices were increased

Keywords

distributed object management; object-oriented programming; open systems; production engineering computing; software performance evaluation; CORBA; Java; OpenMES; composable organization; discrete manufacturing; distributed object computing; extensibility; manufacturing devices; modular organization; object-oriented framework; open connectivity; performance evaluation; production lots; scalable manufacturing execution framework; software systems; Application software; Computer aided manufacturing; Computer architecture; Computer integrated manufacturing; Distributed computing; Enterprise resource planning; Production systems; Pulp manufacturing; Software architecture; Software systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1999. IEEE SMC '99 Conference Proceedings. 1999 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tokyo

ISSN

1062-922X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-5731-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.1999.816585

Filename

816585