Patent ID: 8788082
Filing Date: 2014-07-22
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for executing a scheduled production process having an execution duration within a production schedule executed and controlled by a manufacturing execution system, which comprises the steps of: defining within the scheduled production process a resource required for an execution of the scheduled production process; defining for the resource a sequence-dependent setup sub-process having a setup duration, a productive sub-process having a production duration and a sequence-dependent teardown sub-process having a teardown duration; scheduling the scheduled production process for its execution with a start-time on the production schedule wherein an execution duration is a sum of the setup duration, the production duration and the teardown duration; confirming the scheduled production process for dispatching and subsequent executing at a predetermined period one of prior to the scheduled production process and at the start-time of the scheduled production process; in response to a confirmation of the schedule production process for dispatching, creating individual production processes for the sequence-dependent setup sub-process, the production sub-process and the teardown sub-process, whereby the individual production processes created are linked together by precedence constraints defining a sequence of the individual production processes created; re-scheduling a production schedule through replacing the scheduled production process by the individual production processes created; and executing a re-scheduled production schedule by dispatching the individual production processes created in the scheduled sequence.