Research on Key Technologies of MES Development Based on Component and Driven by Ontology

Manufacturing Execution System (MES) links plan management and workshop control in an enterprise, which is an integrative management and control system of workshop production oriented to manufacturing process. The paper analyzes the function of MES software and the traditional software development flow as well as the defects of the traditional software development method. To overcome the difficulties of traditional software development method, development of MES based on component and driven by ontology is put forward to prompt development efficiency and performance of MES, which can be more reconstructing, reuse, expansion and integration, and the key technologies of MES development based on component and driven by ontology are investigated in detail including construction of MES ontology, the hierarchical architecture of MES based on component and driven by ontology, and the retrieval of MES component based on ontology. Development method of MES software based on component and driven by ontology is feasible and efficient through developing a pharmaceutics MES which applied in a pharmaceutics manufacturing factory.