A component-based application framework for manufacturing execution systems in C# and .NET

Authors:
Reinhard Füricht;Herbert Prähofer;Thomas Hofinger;Josef Altmann
Affiliations:
Software Competence Center Hagenberg, A-4232 Hagenberg / Austria;Johannes Kepler University, A-4040 Linz / Austria;Software Competence Center Hagenberg, A-4232 Hagenberg / Austria;Software Competence Center Hagenberg, A-4232 Hagenberg / Austria
Venue:
CRPIT '02 Proceedings of the Fortieth International Conference on Tools Pacific: Objects for internet, mobile and embedded applications
Year:
2002

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Abstract

This paper describes the design and realization of a component-based application framework to develop Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES). Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) are a recently defined category of industrial software for the plant floor/manufacturing environment. The overall goal has been to enable the development of MES software systems by composition and extensions of prefabricated building blocks. The framework-based development of MES applications guarantees significant reduction in development time and cost by increased software quality. The framework is grounded on two supplementing approaches --- on the one side, an event- and constraint-based modelling approach is used to represent equipment states and production workflow and, on the other side, object-oriented and component-based software technology have been used as the underlying realization concepts. The framework has been realized in Microsoft's new C# programming language and .NET Framework.