Add specifications

You can add any of the globally-defined specifications in the MES database.

When adding specifications, you can:

• Select a specification group

• Select individual specifications from a specification group

When you add a specification group, all the specifications belonging to that group are added to the Specifications list.

Add a specification

1. Click the Add button.

   The Specification Browser dialog box appears.

2. Select the required specifications or specification groups, and then click OK.

   The selected specification or specifications belonging to the selected specification groups appear in the Specification Name list.

   

When you select a specification from the Specifications list, the following information about the specification is retrieved from the MES database and appears in the Global Spec Attributes area.

Specification Group Id

ID of the group to which the specification belongs.

Specification Id

ID of the specification.

Units

Units of measure of the specification.

Data Type

Data type of the specification, such as floating point or string.