METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER MEDIUM FOR CONTROLLING A MANUFACTURING PROCESS

A method for controlling manufacturing processes in a plant via a MES system includes providing the MES system with product definition information, including production-related information entities containing information on how to manufacture a product, and resource-related information entities containing information about resources to be used for manufacturing that product. The MES system is provided with a single production-related information entity for manufacturing a plurality of products whose manufacturing processes share most of the process workflow and most of the resources. The single production-related entity is stored, for a non-shared resource, a label defining the non-shared resource as a generic resource. The generic resource is solved into an actual resource by creating a bind to a resource-related information entity at the creation of a production order for a specific product.