Abstract: A method and system for automatically monitoring operations of a production line as a function of a takt time, includes: a) receiving or acquiring a takt time for production of a product by the production line; b) receiving or acquiring a set of successive operations to be performed on the product by equipment of the production line, each operation being distinguished by a duration defined as a function of the takt time; c) acquiring in real time from the equipment of the production line a temporal progression or evolution of each successive operation; e) automatically determining from the temporal progression or evolution a predicted end of one or each of the successive operations; f) automatically determining whether at least one predicted end exceeds an expected end of the operation; and g) in the affirmative, automatically triggering or activating a measure keeping the production rate equal to the takt time.

Abstract: A method for elaborating work orders to be performed by a system capable of driving manufacturing machinery, in particular a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) or Manufacturing Operation Management (MOM) includes providing work orders containing a series of part programs, the part programs containing information regarding tools to be employed and/or information about a priority of execution. The part programs are read and ordered according to an order of execution, on the basis of the information.

Abstract: A method operates the machinery of a plant having various machines. The method includes providing software-readable information relative to working areas each relating to at least an operation of one of the machines. At least part of the machines are operated by MES or MOM software reading the information so as to avoid operations with overlapping working areas being performed at a same time.

Abstract: A method for elaborating work orders to be performed by a system capable of driving manufacturing machinery, in particular a Manufacturing Execution System (MES) or Manufacturing Operation Management (MOM) includes providing work orders containing a series of part programs, the part programs containing information regarding tools to be employed and/or information about a priority of execution. The part programs are read and ordered according to an order of execution, on the basis of the information.

Abstract: A method operates the machinery of a plant having various machines. The method includes providing software-readable information relative to working areas each relating to at least an operation of one of the machines. At least part of the machines are operated by MES or MOM software reading the information so as to avoid operations with overlapping working areas being performed at a same time.

Abstract: A method and system enable information exchange while switching between a source page and a target page on a drill-down navigation schema, developed with a .NET web application. The method includes providing a smart navigation service, in form of a class library to be configured at page developing time, for managing information for smart navigation between the source page and the target page. The smart navigation service is located, at run-time, in a given user-session and being able, upon-events, to collect, store and provide required smart navigation information from and/or to the web-pages of the given user-session.

Abstract: A method for improving the startup features of a development environment includes the step of starting up a development environment that exposes execution context as an automation model. At the starting up of the development environment, a plug-in is loaded by the development environment. A command line option is provided by the plug-in, whereas a command representing the command line option calls up at least a part of the execution context.