Abstract
A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) is an on-line integrated computerized system that is the accumulation of the methods and tools used to accomplish production [Michael, 1997]. In the latest two decades, the IT has made great progress both in hardware and software development. The design of computerized systems for MES has changed dramatically with these advance technologies like Distributed Computing Environment (DCE). In order to exploit the niches of new technologies, we need a neutral architecture to support the evolving IT and the legacy systems.The Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) is the recently underway specification of OMG. The MDA dedicates to provide an open and vendor-neutral approach of software system development and leverages the value of OMG’s standards. The framework of MDA-based Component-Oriented MES (COMES) proposed in this thesis intend to take the advantages of MDA and component-oriented technology via three developing stages: (1) partitioning and constructing COMES core functions models, (2) developing the COMES function models of PSM, and (3) implementing and building codes. By adopting this framework, it is expected that an agile, flexible, extensible and interoperable MES system can be established under a complex manufacturing environment with the consideration of diverse legacy systems and heterogeneous platforms.From the implementation results conducted in this research, the framework of MDA-based COMES, it demonstrates the merits of this new specification of OMG in manufacturing domains. The MES can be built in an efficient way and possesses the advantages reusability and interoperability when system requirements and platforms are changed.