Title: Cloud-based manufacturing execution system: case study FMS

Authors: Ali Vatankhah Barenji

Addresses: Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Computer Integrated Manufacturing System, School of Electromechanical Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou 510006, China; Mechatronics Engineering Department, Kennesaw State University, Marietta, GA, USA

Abstract: This paper proposed a cloud based manufacturing execution system (CbMES) for covering existing gaps between manufacturing execution system(MES) and enterprise resource planning(ERP) in the small and medium sized enterprises. The proposed system used a frame work based on the model driven architecture (MDA) for evaluation the proposed system, a flexible manufacturing system is selected as the case study. The proposed CbMES is developed for flexible manufacturing system and has been implemented within the oracle cloud platform, for the evaluation of this system, a simulation platform based on the colour Petri net is utilised. The result of simulation indicates that the proposed CbMAS is capable of closing the gaps between MES and ERP; therefore, the outcome of the results showed that the uptime productivity and the production rate of flexible manufacturing systems increased considerably meaning that the system is an effective and viable solution for the IT infrastructure.

Keywords: enterprise resource planning; ERP; manufacturing execution system; MES; model driven architecture; software as a service; SaaS; cloud computing.

DOI: 10.1504/IJISE.2018.096161

International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2018 Vol.30 No.4, pp.449 - 467

Received: 08 Mar 2016
Accepted: 12 Nov 2016
Published online: 15 Nov 2018 *

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