Model driven engineering of manufacturing execution systems using a formal specification: Extension of the MES-ML for the generation of MES code

Benedikt Weißenberger, Stefan Flad, Xinyu Chen, Susanne Rösch, Tobias Voigt, Birgit Vogel-Heuser

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Abstract

Industrial manufacturing processes are complex processes, where transparency of every process step is necessary to achieve a high level of quality and efficiency. In order to achieve this transparency, manufacturing execution systems (MES) are used. However, as these systems are very expensive, mainly due to individual programming effort, MES usage is oftentimes limited to larger companies. To ultimately reduce implementation costs for MES, the current research project AutoMES proposes a standardized, model-based approach to facilitate automatic generation of MES functions. This paper presents requirements on a suitable modeling language, as well as how these requirements are fulfilled by the modeling language used in the AutoMES project. The modeling language is an extension of the MES Modeling Language (MES-ML), a modeling language for the specification of MES. With the use of the extended MES-ML it is possible to generate a generic, machine-usable MES specification, suitable for code generation. To evaluate the proposed modeling language extensions, an industrial brewing process has been modeled and verified by MES engineers during the project AutoMES.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of 2015 IEEE 20th Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, ETFA 2015
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781467379298
DOIs
StatePublished - 19 Oct 2015
Event20th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, ETFA 2015 - Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Duration: 8 Sep 201511 Sep 2015

Publication series

NameIEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, ETFA
Volume2015-October
ISSN (Print)1946-0740
ISSN (Electronic)1946-0759

Conference

Conference20th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, ETFA 2015
Country/TerritoryLuxembourg
CityLuxembourg
Period8/09/1511/09/15

Keywords

  • Manufacturing Execution Systems
  • Model-based software development
  • code generation
  • formal specifications
  • standards

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