Guidelines for defining user requirement specifications (URS) of manufacturing execution system (MES) based on ISA-95 standard. Issue 3 (February 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Yue, Lei; Niu, Pengfei; Wang, Yan
• Is Part Of: Journal of physics. Volume 1168:Issue 3(2019)
• Publication Date: 2019-02
• Subjects: Physics -- Congresses; 530.5
• DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/1168/3/032065
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1742-6588

Abstract

Abstract: To standardize the authoring of user requirement specifications (URS) for manufacturing execution system (MES) proposed by manufacturing enterprises from users' perspectives, and facilitate a quick and effective communication between them and MES vendor or integrator, an approach for URS definition was introduced based on the ISA-95 standard, in which a method for requirement elicitation based on goal and scenario was combined. In this approach, a framework for MES problem space was constructed first from three dimensions: generic activity model for manufacturing operations management (MOM), manufacturing operations categories and supporting activities, and then a series of guidelines for standard application, scenario authoring and requirement arrangement were established to guide the users in seeking the needs and writing them in a normalized sentence form step by step. Additionally, a structure of the table of content for URS documentation was recommended to help the users organizing the textual requirement description. Finally, a case study for applying this approach was performed in a pharmaceutical company's example, which illustrates the application prospect in MES product selection.