Example MES demonstration system topology

It is possible to run a MES solution on a single PC to demonstrate the software.

Note the following about a demonstration system:

• A single-server configuration would not make a good choice for a production system due to performance limitations.

• If the demonstration system is using Workgroups for user management, see the MES Installation Guide for details about how to configure MES and Workgroup user accounts. If using Work Tasks with MES model-driven application content, then Active Directory is required (Workgroups is not supported).

On this PC (usually a laptop), the following is installed:

• MES database

• MES middleware

• MES Client

• MES Web Portal

• Application Server, System Platform IDE, OMI, and InTouch with a Galaxy repository database

• Historian and its Runtime database

• Work Tasks and its Farm and repository databases, Work Tasks Extension and Connector for MES, and MES model-driven application content

• An Operator application

• BI Gateway, the BI Gateway database, and MES BI Gateway reports

A demonstration system might include a very simple simulation and would not have connections to any other systems.

The following figure shows the minimum hardware for a demonstration system.