Patent ID: 8738410

Claim:
A method of revising in-process shop order instances that result in updated electronic work instructions for shop floor manufacture of a product in mid-production by a manufacturing execution system (MES) that commences shop floor product manufacture, the updated electronic work instructions being generated by a computerized manufacturing process planning (MPP) system, the MPP system and the MES being remotely located from one another, the method comprising: interfacing the MPP system and the MES with an integration server; storing a released electronic work instruction for execution by the MES on the MPP system; communicating the electronic work instruction to the MES via the integration server; interrupting, after production of the product has commenced, the execution of the electronic work instruction by the MES based upon an unplanned event or observation occurring on the shop floor; continuing the interruption until a revision to the shop order instance is accepted, wherein the revision results in an update to at least one released electronic work instruction that changes manufacturing process steps that have not been executed and does not result in a change to manufacturing processes steps that have already been executed; wherein accepting the revision comprises: extracting the shop order instance related to the interrupted electronic work instruction from the MPP system, the extracted shop order instance being in a first format; adapting the extracted shop order instance in the first format to a second format that is not compatible with the MPP system; facilitating, through a user interface, modification of one or more fields associated with the shop order instance in the second format; adapting the modified shop order instance from the second format back to the first format; and placing the modified shop order instance in the first format back into the MPP without reworking of in-process instances of the product according to the revised electronic work instruction; and reconciling the at least one released electronic work instruction revision with as planned product and as built product.