Method for managing and controlling manufacturing processes planned by an enterprise resource planning and produced by a plant floor

A method for managing and controlling a planned manufacturing process planned by an Enterprise Resource Planning and produced by a plant floor, wherein a Manufacturing Executing System implements the planned manufacturing process and controls a corresponding production at the plant floor, the method which comprises:

• defining a plurality of sequential process segments, wherein each of the plurality of sequential process segments includes a plurality of actions to be performed at a plant floor level;
• in a computing machine, executing a software tool including steps of activating a sequential process segment and sequentially executing respective ones of the plurality of actions;
• defining state machines implementing corresponding asynchronous production processes including a plurality of states and state transitions corresponding to the plurality of actions to be performed at the plant floor level;
• executing a state manager tool to perform the step of defining the state machines;
• activating the software tool with a state manager tool in order to execute the state transitions of the state machines;
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• reaching a target state of one of the state machines starting from different source states depending on a definition of the one of the state machines and on the state transitions that are executed by the software tool;
• wherein the software tool enables a step for refusing to execute a state transition and for rolling back into a source state after state transition to a target state has been required from the state manager tool and a corresponding action cannot be executed.

A method for managing and controlling a planned manufacturing process planned by an Enterprise Resource Planning and produced by a plant floor, wherein a Manufacturing Executing System implements the planned manufacturing process and controls a corresponding production at the plant floor, the method which comprises:

• defining a plurality of sequential process segments, wherein each of the plurality of sequential process segments includes a plurality of actions to be performed at a plant floor level;
• in a computing machine, executing a software tool including steps of activating a sequential process segment and sequentially executing respective ones of the plurality of actions;
• defining state machines implementing corresponding asynchronous production processes including a plurality of states and state transitions corresponding to the plurality of actions to be performed at the plant floor level;
• executing a state manager tool to perform the step of defining the state machines;
• activating the software tool with a state manager tool in order to execute the state transitions of the state machines;
• providing the planned manufacturing process as input to a production order manager application;
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• executing the production order manager application to output the plurality of states of the state machine;
• wherein the software tool enables a step for refusing to execute a state transition and for rolling back into a source state after a state transition to a target state has been required from the state manager tool and a corresponding action cannot be executed.