Tracking Genealogy

A manufacturing company must record the production process details to track the production status at any instant.

Genealogy allows you to trace the complete history of any material lot (produced or consumed) that is managed by the MES software. You can use genealogy to trace the origins of a contaminated or defective end product.

You can use genealogy to:

• Track materials that are produced back to all the raw and intermediate materials used for production (genealogy).

  For example, this can be used to track the origins of contaminated or defective end product.

• Track the raw material or intermediate material to all materials that are produced using them (reverse genealogy).

  For example, this can be used to track the extent of contaminated or defective end products if the raw material is known to be contaminated.

Genealogy uses the following:

Genealogy ID

Links production, consumption, production data, equipment data, and so on with a unique ID.

A new genealogy ID is generated each time when a value of an attribute is changed at run time.

A sample genealogy ID is as follows:

OCO_001|Mixing|2022-08-19 14:19:51.523

Production Event ID

Links PEM instances of OCO objects across process segments.

A process segment is a logical grouping of resources, such as personnel, equipment, and material required to execute a production step. The process segment defines the type and quantity of resources required.

When a production transaction is triggered, it generates a unique production event ID on each call to the middleware.

A sample event ID is as follows:

Bar Chocolate|2022-08-19 14:23:38.841