Prepare to install MES Cloud integration

AVEVA Manufacturing Execution System (MES) Cloud integration includes the following components for extracting on-premises MES data and publishing it to AVEVA CONNECT data services.

Events to CONNECT agent

The AVEVA Events to CONNECT agent provides the connectivity to CONNECT data services and the publishing of MES events from the MES Staging Curation Service. The MES Cloud integration solution must be used with this component. Events to CONNECT is included as a separate install and configuration.

MES Curation Service

The MES Curation Service is a Windows service that provides two main functions:

• Extracting (curating) data from the MES database and storing it in a staging schema. The MES Staging Curation Service supports publishing of MES events from util_history, job_history, job_hour_history, shift_history, wo, job, job_bom, item_prod, item_cons, job_events, job_route, lot, sublot, item_inv, item_transfer, storage_ent_transfer, receipt, receipt_lot, shipment, shipment_lot, po, po_line, so, and so_line. All necessary context information such as entity, items, and utilization reasons are also included.

• Providing a Web API interface for the AVEVA Events to CONNECT agent. The agent periodically requests event data from the MES Curation Service including context information. When data is available, it is sent to CONNECT data services event storage.

  Notes: MES Cloud integration must be installed on a machine that has an existing MES middleware from a supported version of MES. AVEVA Events to CONNECT can be installed on the same or a separate machine. The machine where Events to CONNECT is installed must have an internet connection to AVEVA CONNECT.

CONNECT visualization

Within the AVEVA cloud platform, the visualization of the published data is through pre-built widgets. These widgets can be added to a dashboard for displaying one or more assets' utilization timeline, OEE KPIs, utilization downtime events summary, production events summary, and more.