MES Web Portal operations

You can enter transactional data to the system through the various pages of the MES Web Portal. Depending on your privileges and line access permissions, you can create work orders, transact against the work orders and jobs within the work order, view line and entity status, enter and modify downtime events, and complete jobs.

A typical workflow, which could involve more than one user, is:

1. Create a work order on a line. (If the work order comes from an external system such as an ERP, the work order can be assigned to a line.)

2. Move a work order from one line to another line if, for example, an equipment failure occurs or work priority has changed.

3. Start a work order and/or the jobs within the work order.

4. Add and/or reduce production for a job running on an entity.

5. Add, split, or modify equipment downtime events on an entity.

6. Complete a job running on an entity.

Operations that can be completed on MES Web Portal

Access to viewing information or performing operations starts at the Home page, shown below.

Operators and other MES Web Portal users can view status information about:

• Work orders (see View the line's work order status)

• A line’s bottleneck entity (View the bottleneck information for a line)

• Jobs that are in an entity's work queue (see View jobs in an entity work queue for a line and View detailed job information)

• Production (see Add production for a running job)

• Entities (see View the entity statuses for a line )

• Utilization events (see View the entity event history )

Operators can also:

• Start and end jobs (see Start or end a job)

• Add or reduce production for a job (see Add production for a running job and Reduce production)

• Mark jobs as complete (see Mark a job as complete)

• Add, merge, or split an entity’s events (see Work with the utilization events for an entity )