Understand entities

Entities are physical assets in the plant whose activity will be tracked by MES and on which information will be reported.

Entities can be:

• An entire plant

• An area of the plant, such as a production floor or a warehouse

• An organizational group of machines, such as those in a department

• A piece of equipment

• A module that makes up a piece of equipment

For information about adding and configuring entities, see Configure entities.

Entity capabilities

Within MES, entities can be assigned one or more capabilities. These capabilities define what activity can occur at the entity and thus what data will be captured and included in reports. These capabilities include:

• Scheduling and running jobs

• Having its own shift schedule

• Capturing machine utilization

• Capturing labor information

• Tracking OEE (overall equipment effectiveness)

• Receiving, storing, or shipping production items

• Logging data

• Copying folders of program files, documentation, and other files regarding an item’s production relative to the entity

• Capturing quality data

  Note: MES Web Portal can be used to configure entity utilization and OEE data capture only. To configure Operational and Quality data capture, use MES Client.