Patent ID: 8639376
Filing Date: 2014-01-28
Classification: G05B,G06F,Y02P

Abstract:
1. A method of configuring a utilization object corresponding to equipment modeled by a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system object, the utilization object being used thereafter to determine equipment states for a manufacturing execution system (MES) database entity, the method comprising: providing a configurable utilization object associated with the SCADA system object, the configurable utilization object having an executable that, when executed, applies collected status data for the SCADA system object to a set of logical expressions associated with a set of raw reason codes to render a current raw reason code for the utilization object; providing a utilization object equipment state configuration interface, the equipment state configuration interface comprising a user-editable field through which the set of raw reason codes and associated expressions are defined for the configurable utilization object, the user-editable field including a raw reason code list for presenting the set of raw reason codes according to their serialized priorities relative to each other; and updating a MES database entity, wherein said updating comprises: