Glossary

B

Bill of Materials (BOM)

Bill Of Materials (BOM) is a list of all the components and potentially by-products necessary to produce an item.

C

Change Log

The revision history that tracks the life cycle activities of System Platform objects, such as object creation, check in or check out, deployment, and import or export.

Class

Group of similar items, entities, processes, and so on.

Client Application

Applications that can run on a non-server system and interact with the server components on the server.

Compound Object

An ApplicationObject that contains at least one other ApplicationObject.

D

Deadband

Represents the change in the run-time value of a production counter before the production is logged for a job in the database.

E

Extended Production Attributes (EPA)

Extended Production Attributes (EPA) are used to extend the amount of data you want to record when the PEM object is triggered.

Event Name

Name of the event that is associated with the event trigger.

Events

Events are associated with ActiveX controls and occur through the ActiveX container. You can execute ActiveX control events in Runtime (WindowViewer) by designating a particular action and associating it to the event by creating ActiveX Event Scripts.

Events Reports

Shows all the events logged in the production database as a table.

G

Galaxy Database Manager

The Galaxy Database Manager is a utility to manage your Galaxy. It can back up and restore galaxies if they become corrupt or reproduce a galaxy on another computer. The Galaxy Database Manager is part of the Operations Control Management Console.

Genealogy

A genealogy is the record of the specific materials consumed in production relative to the specific products made from them.

Allows you to trace the complete genealogy (forwards or backwards) of any material lot (produced or consumed) managed by the MES application. A produced material can be traced back to all raw and intermediate materials that went into its production. For example, genealogy may be used to trace the origins of a contaminated or defective end product.

Grade

Describes the condition of a material.

H

Hierarchical Name

The name of the object in the context of its container object. For example, Tank1.OutletValve, where an object called Tank1 contains the OutletValve object.

Host

The parent of a child Instance in the deployment view. For example, a Platform instance is a Host for an Application Engine (AppEngine) instance.

I

Inventory

A detailed list of all the items in the stock.

Item Class

A group of items that share common characteristics, such as physical properties whether they are produced, consumed, or both.

Item Reason

An item reason is the explanation, description, or categorization applied to a particular amount of production or consumption. Inventory (which consists of items) cannot have reasons.

Item State

Defines the state of an item. You can determine minimal shippable standards. For example, an item state of Finished Goods would mean an item has been successfully produced, while an item state of WIP (Work in Progress) would mean the item is still under production. The names and colors of the item states are user defined. A user can type as many item states as desired.

M

Material Consumed Actual (MCA)

The Material Consumed Actual (MCA) object enables you to record the materials consumed during a defined production segment.

Material Moved Actual (MMA)

The Material Moved Actual (MMA) object enables you to record the movement of material with a single PEM event, which is a combination of a Material Consumed Actual event and a Material Produced Actual event. This object is for the special case where you need to track the movement of material.

Material Produced Actual (MPA)

The Material Produced Actual (MPA) object enables you to record the creation of a final product as the output of a production segment.

P

Production Event Module (PEM)

The Production Event Module (PEM) enables monitoring, reporting, and analyzing production history and genealogy for lots, batches, and serial numbers without having to define the full MES model

R

Reverse Genealogy

A given raw material or intermediate material can be traced to all materials produced from it. For example, reverse genealogy may be used for tracing the extent of a contaminated or defective end product if the raw material is known to be contaminated.

S

Step

Incremental task within an operation. Provides guidance to complete an operation. An operation can have many steps associated with it.

Substitute

Specifies items that can be used in place of one BOM item, and any restriction on that usage.

U

User Defined Attribute (UDA)

Allows you to add new functionality to an object. An attribute is added to an object at configuration time.

W

WCF

Windows Communication Foundation.