Jobs

A job represents an instance of an operation for a given work order that is intended to be performed at a given entity. A job can include a list of steps or procedures that are executed to perform that operation. In turn, a work order consists of a set of jobs that are executed to produce an item.

Within the MES database, a job is characterized by a unique combination of work order ID, operation, and internal sequence number.

Jobs are executed on entities. Jobs can be controlled by:

• Starting an existing job on the entity

• Pausing or ending a job that is running on the entity

The recording of job execution data for an entity can be performed by an Operations Capability Object (OCO) instance. In the MES Web Portal, a production operator can manually start a new job or end a job (see Starting and Ending Jobs).