Configure basic information and capabilities for an entity

On the General tab, you specify:

• Basic information about the entity

• The entity’s capabilities

  Note: If an entity is a member of a line, then its Can Schedule Jobs, Can Run Jobs, Can Capture Util, and Can Track OEE capability options cannot be cleared. If you attempt to clear any of these options, an error message will appear.

  

The General entity settings are:

• Name

  Required. The entity name. The name must be unique within a given site.

• Description

  A description of the entity.

• Identical Job Execs

  The number of jobs that can be run simultaneously on the entity.

  A value of 0 (the default) or 1 indicates that only one job can run at a time.

  Note: For entities that are in a line, MES currently allows only one job to be running at a time.

• Spare fields

  Can be used to specify custom general information about the entity.

• Can Schedule Jobs

  The entity can have jobs scheduled to it.

  This option is required for an entity to be a member of a line.

  This option is useful when jobs are initially scheduled to a parent entity (for example, from an ERP download of a work order) and then the running entity (which has the Can Run Jobs capability) is a child of the parent and set by the plant person.

• Can Run Jobs

  The entity can run jobs.

  Select this option if the entity is a member of a line.

  This capability is required so that the individual jobs for a specific entity that are associated to the work order running on the line can be started and completed.

• Can Capture Util

  The entity can capture utilization data.

  Select this option if the entity is a member of a line.

  This capability is required because the production rate calculation for determining a line’s bottleneck uses the entity's utilization reason to determine whether an entity is enabled and so should be used in the rate calculation.

• Can Capture Labor

  The entity can capture labor data.

• Can Track OEE

  The entity can capture OEE statistics.

  Select this option if the entity is a member of a line.

  This capability is required because it allows for a default production rate to be assigned to the entity. The production rate is used in the calculation that determines a line's bottleneck when no job is running on the entity and the next one cannot be inferred.

• Can Schedule Shifts

  The entity has its own shift schedule and will not inherit shifts from any parent.

  Select this option if the entity will be the parent entity of a line, unless shift information for the line is inherited from an entity above the line's parent entity in the entity hierarchy.

  Do not select this option if shifts for this entity are managed at a higher-level entity within the entity hierarchy.

• Can Store

  The entity can serve as a storage location.

• Can Log Data

  The entity can log data to one of the data log tables defined separately. This option is not required for Quality data collection.

• Can Ship

  The entity can serve as a shipment location.

• Can Receive

  The entity can serve as a location that can receive materials.

• Can Copy Folders

  Copies of files in a folder (program files, documentation, and other files regarding an item’s production relative to the entity) can be made specifically for this entity.

• Can Capture QM Data

  The entity can have QM Samples generated for it and record results.