DYNAMICALLY CONFIGURABLE EQUIPMENT INTEGRATION ARCHITECTURE

A dynamically configurable equipment integration architecture automatically records on a Host Computer (10) statistics from operation of Factory Equipment (18) received from a GEM Interface Server (16). The format of relevant messages containing selected reports are described in a Configuration File (44). Reports are enabled by execution of a Sampling Plan (50). Messages containing the selected reports received from the GEM Interface Server (16) are translated into a Script (46) utilizing the Configuration File (44). Interpreting the Script (46) causes statistics contained in the reports to be written to an Output File (52) stored on Secondary Storage (30) on the Host Computer (10).