Patent ID: 6397116
Filing Date: 2002-05-28
Classification: G05B,G06Q,Y02P

Abstract:
A production control system for controlling apparatuses installed in manufacturing plants by using execution systems, comprising:a request system for setting an executive function to be executed for controlling any of said apparatuses; and an agent system connected with said execution systems and said request system through a computer network, wherein said request system includes: function setting means for setting, in a function setting part, a function name indicating a kind of an executive function to be executed and a manufacturing plant where said executive function is to be executed; execution condition setting means for setting an execution start condition or an execution end condition for said executive function in a start condition setting part or an end condition setting part; and execution information transmitting means for transmitting, to said agent system, said function name and said manufacturing plant set in said function setting part and said execution start condition or said execution end condition set in said start condition setting part or said end condition setting part as execution information, and said agent system includes: execution information receiving means for receiving said execution information transmitted from said execution information transmitting means; function controlling means for determining whether or not said execution start condition or said execution end condition included in said execution information received by said execution information receiving means is satisfied, and when said execution start condition or said execution end condition is satisfied, for instructing an execution system working in said manufacturing plant included in said execution information received by said execution information receiving means to start or end execution of said executive function indicated by said function name included in said execution information received by said execution information receiving means, receiving an execution result from said execution system obtained by carrying out said executive function directed to said execution system, and storing said received execution result in a result return part; and result informing means for outputting said execution result stored in said result return part to a message device.