Manufacturing execution system, equipment interface and method of operating a manufacturing execution system

A manufacturing execution system comprising:

• a manufacturing execution plan indicative of manufacturing steps to be executed for manufacturing a product,
• a planning component for determining a context-specific data collection plan for data to be collected during execution of at least one of the manufacturing steps,
• a service interface for providing the data collection plan in response to a service request,
• a database for storing data that has been collected in accordance with a context-specific data collection plan;
• and
• an analytical component for analytically processing the data stored in the database, the planning component being operable to determine a modified context-specific data collection plan depending on a result of the analytical processing,
• wherein the modified context-specific data collection plan is provided in response to a subsequent service request relating to the same context as a previous service request that resulted in the modification of the context-specific data collection plan.