A Study On Equipment Maintenance Management System At The Workshop Level

A manufacturing execution system (MES) is a middle layer management system between the upper level management information system and the lower level industrial control system. It helps the managers by tracking all enterprise resources (human resource, equipment and material) and providing functions to control and monitor the progress of the plans. The MES system has come to China only in recently years, our research work is far behind the western countries.With the promotion of enterprise computer applications and the advance of enterprise informationization, enterprises require more and more MES functions. However traditional MES is lacking in respects of versatility, integratability, inter-operability and agility, it couldn't meet the needs of the enterprises. Therefore, the author proposes a system architecture of MES based on Microsoft .NET and realized some of the functions.This paper described the whole process of developing the MES prototype.It presented requirement analysis, model analysis, UML modeling and database modeling of equipment maintenance management system at the workshop level. It concludes by describing further development possibilities of the prototype system.