Understand OCO, System Platform equipment model, and MES entities

The OCO adds MES capabilities to the equipment-oriented application objects in your System Platform IDE equipment model. By adding an OCO 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 OCO instance into MES using the Entity Model Builder will create entities that are represented in your equipment model. These entities can be used to perform different operations as per the information configured in the OCO. Exporting OCOs to the MES database also provides an automated alternative to manually creating and configuring the entities in MES Web Portal or MES Client.