Integration of Information for Manufacturing Shop Control

摘要

The concept of manufacturing execution system (MES) has become significant in modern manufacturing enterprises, especially in low volume and high variety manufacturing industries. The integration between enterprise resources planning (ERP), manufacturing execution systems and shop-floor control (SFC) systems can have an important role in an enterprise control system. Manufacturing execution system is located in the middle, where an enterprise resource planning is located above and shop floor control system below. In this paper the part of the automated shop floor control system with possibilities of connecting to the control system on the machine level is presented. Also, possibilities and limitations in communication between existing automatic machine control systems as well as other devices into integral information system of manufacturing enterprise are described.