Standard based framework for the of manufacturing control development systems

Abstract A Manufacturing Control Systems CASE tool, called MCSTOOLS, has been developed with the aim of reducing the effort needed to produce this kind of software. The control systems developed by means of this tool follow the Control Systems for Integrated Manufacturing (COSIMA conceptual model (ESPRIT 477 project). In order to minimize the development time of Manufacturing Control Systems (MCS), this CASE tool automatically generates as much software as possible . In addition, the software produced by the MCSTOOLS is highly reusable, as it conforms to a widely accepted software engineering method- Object Oriented Analysis/ Design/ Programming (OOA/ D/ P- and several manufacturing and communications standards. Among these standards the most relevant are; Product Data Representation and Exchange (also known as STEP, ISO 10303), Manufacturing Message Specification (MMS, ISO 9506) and the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA). In order to achieve the objective of producing MCSs able to be adapt...