Chapter 33: Manufacturing Execution Systems for Micro-manufacturing

This chapter aims to deliver insights into concepts, standards, and technologies used to implement the production-related information technology (IT) environment for micro-/nano-manufacturing. The first section provides a general overview of the production IT landscape. It explains important terms, architecture layers, and corresponding systems and their scope. In the second section, the scope is narrowed to the manufacturing execution systems, which are investigated in more detail. The third section briefly reviews approaches to implement the concepts discussed earlier. The last section closes the chapter with some considerations on relevant standardization work.