ARCHITECTURE FOR OPTIMIZING THE MANUFACTURING PROCESSES IN ENTERPRISES

摘要

The invention relates to an architecture for optimizing the manufacturing processes in enterprises, both relating to the manufacturing time and to the installing time. According to the invention, the architecture consists of three main components: the first one is an OPC UA server (OLE for Process Control Unified Architecture) which models a series of data at the level of the devices used during the manufacturing process, and for efficiently carrying out the address space there was designed a set of algorithms which automatically generate the UA nodes of the address space based on the data source content; the second component consists of a series of software services organized on two levels, having the role of offering an easier communication between the higher level CSP (Constraint Satisfaction Problems) and the lower level OPC UA, these services being introduced at the second level, because they guarantee the flexibility and the reuse of the entire architecture; and the third component consists of a set of CSP models which determine the optimized production solutions and which are automatically used by means of the architecture.