About MES Client

The MES Client application is a collection of modules, grouped by function and role of the user, to allow the configuration and monitoring of your plant operations.

You can use the MES Client application to:

• Define users and user groups. This includes assigning passwords, privileges, user certifications, and entity access rights to different users to limit their access to different areas of the MES Client application

• Define global system parameters.

• Configure language strings.

• Configure physical entities.

• Configure sites.

• Configure shift patterns and their shift schedules for entities.

• Define generic data collection groups and the data log values within those groups.

• Define utilization states for machines (such as Running or Idle) and the utilization reasons for those states (such as Meal Break).

• Define categories for use with quality management (QM) specifications and causes.

• Modify the names and colors associated with job and step states.

• Define custom attributes.

• Define file extensions for document files and web pages that can be assigned to MES components such as entities, work orders, and jobs to provide information and instructions to operators.

• Configure items and item classes.

• Specify units of measure (UOMs) for items and characteristics.

• Specify item states, grades, and reasons.

• Configure global specifications that can be assigned to an operation, process, or job.

• Define labor departments and labor categories to provide context for entities that can track labor data.

• Define certifications that can be assigned to items, operations, operation steps, and job steps to restrict user access to related tasks or require sign-offs to complete those tasks for auditing purposes.

• Configure a process, operation, standard operation, and dynamic routing processes.

• Configure work orders and jobs.

• Manage jobs in the job queue.

• Maintain the MES database.

• Edit and resubmit rejected messages.

• Configure serialization to assign specific serial numbers to produced items.

• Configure QM sample plan frequencies.

• Configure QM sample plans.

• Configure variable and attribute characteristic definitions for QM to allow an aspect of an item, process, or entity to be measured.

• Configure quality specifications

• Define causes, and cause groups, to allow a cause to be assigned to a characteristic sample.