Applications Used

The following applications are run on the Engineering station:

• MES Client

• System Platform IDE

• InTouch WindowMaker and WindowViewer

• OMI Application Manager

• MES Application Objects

• MES .NET Controls

• MES Entity Model Builder

• Work Tasks Enterprise Console

• BI Gateway Server Administrator features

• Web browser to access MES Web Portal, if used

The GR Node (the GR database) can be run on the Engineering station. This frees up resources on the Report Server. However, this makes the Engineering station a Production Database Server and therefore it will require server‑class hardware and database maintenance (e.g., regular backups).