Production cell information system based on activity costs and an architecture therefor

A production cell information system based on activity costs, wherein said production cell information system is used for controlling a production cell having a plurality of equipments, and said production cell information system comprises:

• a cell controller used for executing a plurality of functions existing in a MES (Manufacturing Execution system), and a cost evaluation, wherein said cell controller further comprises;
• a lot control subsystem, wherein said lot control subsystem is used for tracking and controlling the expected and actual procedures and progress for a plurality of lots inside said production cell;
• a workflow control subsystem, wherein said workflow control subsystem is responsible for monitoring and controlling the situation of material flow inside said production cell;
• an objective control subsystem, wherein said objective control subsystem is used for defining a plurality of indicators and a plurality of drivers under a plurality of objectives;
• a WIP subsystem, wherein said WIP subsystem is used for dividing said plurality of lots into a plurality of units, thereby recording the history and status of each of said plurality of units;
• a recipe management subsystem, wherein said recipe management subsystem is used for recording and managing a plurality of recipes corresponding to said plurality of equipments;
• a maintenance management subsystem, wherein said maintenance management subsystem is responsible for recording an operation history of each of said plurality of equipments;
• an alarm event management subsystem;
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• an equipment data management subsystem, wherein said equipment data management subsystem is used for distributing a plurality of items collected from said plurality of equipments, said plurality of items comprising events, alarms, statuses and characteristics;
• an equipment manager, wherein said equipment manager further comprises:
• a configuration control subsystem and a plurality of equipment drivers;
• a data service means, wherein said data service means further comprises:
• a local database and an objective database;
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• a web server, wherein said web server further comprises a web service subsystem.

An architecture for a production cell information system based on activity costs, wherein said production cell information system is used for controlling a production cell having a plurality of equipments, and said architecture comprises:

• a presentation layer used for providing a user interface, wherein said user interface comprises an application GUI (Graphic User Interface), and a browser GUI;
• a business rules layer, wherein said business rules layer comprises:
• a lot control subsystem, wherein said lot control subsystem is used for tracking and recording the actual procedure and progress for each lot inside the production cell;
• a workflow control subsystem, wherein said workflow control subsystem is responsible for monitoring and controlling the situation of material flow inside said production cell;
• a web service subsystem, wherein said web service subsystem is used for providing communication and service between said browser GUI and said workflow controller subsystem, and providing the function of safety and duty distribution;
• an objective control subsystem, wherein said objective control subsystem is used for defining a plurality of indicators and a plurality of drivers under a plurality of objectives;
• a WIP subsystem, wherein said WIP subsystem is used for dividing said plurality of lots into a plurality of units, thereby recording the history and status of each of said plurality of units;
• a recipe management subsystem, wherein said recipe management subsystem is used for recording and managing a plurality of recipes corresponding to said plurality of equipments;
• a maintenance management subsystem, wherein said maintenance management subsystem is responsible for recording an operation history of each of said plurality of equipments;
• an alarm event management subsystem;
• an equipment data management subsystem, wherein said equipment data management subsystem is used for distributing a plurality of items collected from said plurality of equipments, said plurality of items comprising events, alarms, statuses and characteristics;
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• a configuration control subsystem, wherein said configuration control subsystem is used for controlling said plurality of equipments;
• a data object service layer used for handling the transient data passed from a plurality of data objects in said business rules layer, wherein said data object service layer further comprises:
• a lot data service object, wherein said lot data service object is used for storing the dynamic data of each of said plurality of lots;
• a source lot service object, wherein said source lot service object is used for recording the original information of each of said plurality of lots;
• a flow data service object, wherein said flow data service object is used for describing the itemized information of said plurality of lots moving in a plurality of processes;
• an equipment data service object, wherein said equipment data service object is used for temporarily storing the current status of each of said plurality of equipments;
• a plurality of equipment drivers, wherein each of said plurality of equipment drivers is used for monitoring the behavior of each of said plurality of equipments one-on-one;
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• an objective data service object, wherein said object data service object is used for recording the data regarding said plurality of indicators and said plurality of drivers under said plurality of objectives;
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• an entity layer, wherein said entity layer comprises:
• a system database, wherein said system database is used for storing complete production data for said production cell;
• a local database, wherein said local database is used for recording medium or short term data related to said plurality of equipments;
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• an objective database, wherein said objective database is used for collecting objective data of said production cell from the beginning of operation.