Abstract: A manufacturing execution system (MES) that provides tools for modeling and determining information about physical production lines made up of arrangements of entities. The MES includes configuration tools for modeling the entities in a physical production line. The MES also includes configuration tools for modeling the physical production line. Entity data models and line data models conform to the data structure of respective model templates. Line data models include line definition models and line layout models. Line layout models include an entity link model for each of the entities in the physical production line. The MES includes tools for dynamically determining the bottleneck for the physical production line. Other production metrics are also calculated using the MES.

Abstract: A processor connected to a process module executes processor executable instructions stored on the process module according to process input data received by a process definition interface, according to variables input data received by a variables interface. A non-linear correction factor as defined by a non-linear correction factor module is applied to provide a solution to an iterative process. A processor implemented process solves a process problem and comprises processor executable instructions stored on a tangible storage device.

Abstract: Interaction between development environments and runtime environments to ensure that underlying process components are in an acceptable state before deploying application updates. A deploy state monitor in a development environment interacts with runtime values in executing applications to manage deployment requests and states of executing applications.

Abstract: An event historian system merges stored event data snapshots into sorted event storage blocks. The system determines that a storage block contains a plurality of snapshots to be merged. A new snapshot is created into which the plurality of snapshots will be merged. The event data within the snapshots is combined and recorded into the new snapshot in a sorted order. The index files within the snapshots are combined and recorded into the new snapshot.