Plant Business Network

The Plant Business network is the main network for most non-direct production staff. Some users will require access to the MES Report Server. See Network Interconnections for different methods of providing access. In some circumstances, the Engineering Stations and Supervisor Stations will be on the Plant Business network.

This network is characterized as open, with many clients and varying traffic loads that might cause it to be slow at times. It is usually placed on the other side of the firewall from the Production network It might be part of the corporate WAN with or without a firewall.