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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2012
Filed:
May. 12, 2009
Alessandro Raviola, Genua, IT;
Alessandro Raviola, Genua, IT;
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich, DE;
Abstract
A method for modeling and executing a production rule of a production phase in a discrete manufacturing scenario, whereby the production rule is associated to a process element and contains predefined production steps and predefined dependencies between the production steps, contains the steps of loading a production rule into a production order manager, parsing the production rule, and retrieving the predefined production steps and the predefined dependencies. Optionally user-defined parameters for the predefined production steps and the predefined dependencies are input. A state machine is created and contains the production steps labeled each as a predefined state, and further contains the dependencies labeled each as a predefined transition between two predefined states. The state machine is then forwarded to a process controller.