Get started with the Entity Model Builder

Entity Model Builder (EMB) is a System Platform IDE extension for creating entities from your System Platform equipment model that uses:

• The Utilization Capability Object (UCO) to configure utilization and OEE support

• The Operation Capability Object (OCO) to configure job execution and storage execution capabilities

• The Sample Recording Object (SRO) to configure sample and sample result data.

The installation of Entity Model Builder also provides you the capability to export existing System Platform users and roles to create corresponding Manufacturing Execution System (MES) users and groups.

Entity Model Builder creates and maintains the entity model within the MES database. In the System Platform IDE equipment Model View, when you add and configure the UCO, OCO, or SRO as a child object to an existing application object, you can run Entity Model Builder to export the configured information and create corresponding entities.

This eliminates the need to manually create and configure entities to match the IDE equipment model.

Although Entity Model Builder is not a comprehensive user/role synchronization tool, it provides the convenience to avoid re-entering each System Platform user/role into the MES database.