Control device having function of collecting and saving time series data

A control device, comprising:

• a control operation unit, configured to acquire input data from a control target connected to the control device over a bus or a network in an order of hundreds of μsec and determines output data for the control target by executing a control operation based on the acquired input data, wherein the control target collects the input data in an order of 10 μsec;
• a manufacturing data acquisition unit, configured to acquire manufacturing data from a manufacturing execution system associated with the control target over a higher level network, wherein the manufacturing data comprise at least one of a part number, a lot number and a recipe number of a product;
• a time series database, configured to sequentially store at least some of the input data, the output data, operation data calculated in the control operation according to the control operation unit, and the manufacturing data in a time series, wherein data are sequentially stored to the time series database in the same period as an execution period of the control operation in the control operation unit;
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• an outside output unit, configured to output a data set including at least some of the input data, the output data, the operation data and the manufacturing data.