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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2014
Invensys Systems, Inc., Foxboro, MA (US);
Thomas Andrew Troy, Lansdale, PA (US);
Jeffrey Bernard Nuse, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA (US);
Keith Richard Frantz, Richland, PA (US);
Nicolas Pouyez, Paso Robles, CA (US);
Diana Ivanov, Rancho Santa Margarita, CA (US);
James Eric O'Hearn, Mission Viejo, CA (US);
Adam R. Haskell, Lake Forest, CA (US);
Raghavendran Gobalakrishnan, Chester Springs, PA (US);
Melvin Philip Norbeck, New Cumberland, PA (US);
Richard William Boyle, Mohrsville, PA (US);
Daniel van Klaveren, Ladera Ranch, CA (US);
Invensys Systems, Inc., Foxboro, MA (US);
Abstract
A manufacturing execution system (MES) that provides tools for modeling and determining information about physical production lines made up of arrangements of entities. The MES includes configuration tools for modeling the entities in a physical production line. The MES also includes configuration tools for modeling the physical production line. Entity data models and line data models conform to the data structure of respective model templates. Line data models include line definition models and line layout models. Line layout models include an entity link model for each of the entities in the physical production line. The MES includes tools for dynamically determining the bottleneck for the physical production line. Other production metrics are also calculated using the MES.