Understand OCOs, the System Platform equipment model, and MES entity hierarchy

In the System Platform IDE Model View, you can add an OCO below any application object or system area object that you want to create in MES as an entity with MES operations capabilities.

When you place the OCO object as a child to an application or area object in the System Platform equipment model and then run the Entity Model Builder, an entity is created in the MES database for the OCO’s parent object. Additional parent entities are created in the MES database as needed to replicate that object’s branch of the equipment model in MES.

Note: You can add the OCO as a child under application or area objects only. If you add the OCO as a child under any other object such as an engine, the OCO does not work properly. An application or area object can contain only one OCO object as a child.