Understand the UCO, System Platform equipment model, and MES entities

The UCO adds MES capabilities to the equipment-oriented application objects in your System Platform IDE equipment model. By adding a UCO instance below another application object instance in your equipment model, you are able to map and configure the System Platform IDE equipment model to the MES entity model.

Exporting the configured UCO instance into MES using the Entity Model Builder will create entities that are represented in your equipment model. These entities will be capable of capturing utilization and tracking OEE. These entities can also have their job production attributes configured in the UCO.

Exporting UCOs to the MES database also provides an automated alternative to manually creating and configuring the entities in MES Web Portal or MES Client.