Customizing a GUI of a MES screen

Abstract

The present invention provides a method and system for customizing a user-interface of a page-screen of a general purpose MES software application taking into account a set of customer requirements; comprising: providing within the MES application a page-screen containing a configurable graphic control that comprises a custom area customizable via a plugin; providing a graphic configuration tool for enabling the configuration of the configurable graphic control; further including, at engineering time: providing also a configurable plugin, wherein its software code comprises an additional configurable graphic control comprising its custom area customizable via a nested plugin; specifying, through the configuration tool, the information of the configurable plugin; exploring the page-screen so that, under the node representing the configurable graphic control, a tree is presented in which there is at least one node representing the configurable plugin having, underneath, at least one node representing the additional configurable graphic control; selecting a specific node representing a specific additional configurable graphic control comprising an associated custom area to be customized according to an additional given customer requirement; providing the nested plugin which meets said additional given customer requirement; specifying the information of the nested plugin for linking it to the custom area of the additional configurable graphic control.

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Technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a method and system for customizing GUI (Graphical User Interface) of MES screen. Background technique [0002] As defined by the Manufacturing Enterprise Solutions Association (MESA International), the MES system manages "production operations from the point where an order is issued to manufacturing to the point where the product is delivered as a finished product" and by providing "pass Bidirectionally communicated mission-critical information about production activities to other departments in the organization and the supply chain” is used as a “dynamic information system that drives the effective execution of manufacturing operations”. The international standard for developing MES systems is usually called ISA-95 or S95. [0003] The goal of MES systems developed by software vendors is to provide manufacturing companies (customers) with tools for measuring and controlling production activities in order to increase profit ...

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Problems solved by technology

Until now, the problem for system integrators was that they could not configure plug-ins delivered with the original page screens because, in order to change the behavior of a given plug-in, they had to rewrite the given plug-in code and replace it with their own new Custom plugins to replace the given plugins delivered

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