US 11,789,713 B2
Method and system for determining in which technological layer a module of a MOM application is to be deployed
Giorgio Corsini, Genoa (IT); Andrea Loleo, Genoa (IT); Ernesto Montaldo, Genoa (IT); and Giovanni Venturi, Genoa (IT)
Assigned to Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
Filed by Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
Filed on Nov. 19, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/530,705.
Claims priority of application No. 20208681 (EP), filed on Nov. 19, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0156051 A1, May 19, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 8/60 (2018.01)
CPC G06F 8/60 (2013.01) 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for determining in which technological layer a module of a Manufacturing Operations Management (MOM) application is to be deployed and for deploying the module as part of an optimized distribution, the method comprising the following steps:
a) receiving data of a specific MOM application having a plurality of modules, wherein each of the plurality of modules is independently deployable in at least two layers of a plurality of technological layers;
b) for the specific MOM application, defining a set of characteristic parameters characterizing business characteristics, process characteristics and information technology characteristics of the specific MOM application relevant for technological layer computation purposes;
c) for a given module, which is one of the plurality of modules, defining a corresponding layer-deploying function, the corresponding layer-deploying function having as input a subset of the characteristic parameters and having as output a range value determining the technological layer to deploy the given module at configuration time;
d) for the given module, determining a corresponding deploying technological layer in which the given module will be deployed by applying the corresponding layer-deploying function defined for the given module; and
e) following step d), deploying, at configuration time, the given module to the technological layer determined in step d);
wherein deploying the given module to the technological layer determined in step d) is at least part of an optimized distribution of the plurality of modules of the specific MOM application.