Cloud-based architecture
A production data capture and monitoring system designed for
one plant cannot implement effective integration and sharing of
production data collected from different plants. With the development of global manufacturing and in the presence offierce
market competition, this system fails to meet the needs of
a distributed global manufacturing network. New and improved
architectures are needed to integrate and process a large amount
of production data collected from distributed plants and meet
actionable decision-making requirements in a very short time. The
proposed RIDSS architecture, which adopts a cloud-based system
architecture, can provide effective and real-time production monitoring and decision-making functions. The cloud-based system
architecture exhibits the following advantages
1) Easy-to-access portal to integrate RRDC models. The models
are developed to collect real-time production data from
different plants, particularly from collaborating or outsourcing
plants. Without cloud-based architecture, such data collection
can be difficult. Real-time production data result in real-time
production monitoring and effective decision-making, thereby
improving response time.
(2) Completion of system installation and maintenance in the
company headquarters rather than in individual plants. It results
in reduced labor and system costs for production plants since
Fig. 8.Interface 3 –intelligent production scheduling at company level.
the main system components of the RIDSS architecture are
installed and maintained in the company headquarters.
(3) System access from anywhere via the Internet for users at
3 different management levels. Such access allows these
users to remotely track and monitor production progress and
make production scheduling decisions, which leads to a higher
production visibility, transparency as well as decision-making
performance