Scaling of a Modular Production System (MPS) with Manufacturing Execution System (MES) and Multiple Agents

The digital transition currently taking place involves the existence of various studies to deliver solutions to digital industrial processes, and a systematic review of such studies has made evident a limitation with respect to those papers about implementation in the academy and confidential pilot tests developed by large industrial companies; all this situation decelerates the joint implementation of operation and information technologies (OT and IT) that enable scaling industrial automation and control systems (IACS). This paper implemented a manufacturing execution system (MES) to a Festo MPS-500 modular production system under the cores of the ISA-95 standard as a guide in data collection, production scheduling and product traceability; the stages of the production process are executed through multiple agents, in response to a mini batches order placed by a user through the internet, and the system also watches power consumption in case of no request, generating administrative and maintenance reports. The average latency metrics from the instant in which the user requests a mini-batch until the moment in which the plant starts the execution is 1.59% of the duration of the manufacturing process, indicating that the MES is not critical during the communication time with the server of the M2M (Machine to Machine) database.