Patent ID: 7027883

Claim:
A system for an integrated manufacturing execution system, MES, that unifies the production data for a manufacturing lot that moves from a current production line to different production lines, comprising: a database recording data pertaining to, a manufacturing lot ID identifying the manufacturing lot, a current MES associated with the lot ID, MES rules and transactions performed to manufacture the manufacturing lot identified by the lot ID; a memory storing data recorded in the database; a computer of the current production line, the computer communicating with the database and with production line MESs of each of the different production lines to which the manufacturing lot identified by the lot ID is moved to perform the transactions; the database supplying the different production lines with MES rules of the current production line; and the database recording transaction data, for each transaction performed on the manufacturing lot, in the current MES, whereby the current MES unifies the production data for the manufacturing lot.