AVEVA MES Operations Training

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Describe Manufacturing Execution System - Operations software and its components
• Implement security for the Manufacturing Execution System software
• Create a production and execution model, which addresses bills of materials, operations, and inventory
• Create plant equipment in the Manufacturing Execution System database
• Describe production capabilities to track production data in a production environment
• Create and execute work orders that enforce production rules
•  Implement bills of materials in production processes
• Describe production genealogy tracking
• Describe how to use reporting tools to view and analyze production reports
• Describe the application object provided with Manufacturing Execution System - Operations
• Implement the integration of Manufacturing Execution System - Operations and System Platform
• Create graphic displays using .NET controls provided with the Manufacturing Execution System software
• Describe inventory management in Manufacturing Execution System - Operations

Individuals who need to configure and use the Manufacturing Execution System 2020 R2 – Operations software in their manufacturing processes.

Knowledge of the following tools, features, and technologies is required:

• Manufacturing industry experience
• From Application Server software product:
  
  • ArchestrA IDE
  • Automation objects
  • Deployment model
  • Plant model
  • QuickScript .NET scripting language
• From InTouch for System Platform software product:
  • InTouch development tools
  • ArchestrA Graphics
  • .NET Controls

Module 1 – Introduction
Section 1 – Course Introduction

• This section describes the objectives of the course, intended audience, prerequisites, and the course agenda.

Section 2 – System Platform Overview

• This section describes fundamental concepts about System Platform, including its clients, components, and services. It also introduces the ArchestrA technology.

Section 3 – Manufacturing Execution System - Operations Overview

• This section describes the functionality and features of the MES Operations software and provides an overview of the client applications.

Section 4 – System Requirements and Licensing

• This section describes hardware recommendations, software requirements, and licensing for MES Operations.

Module 2 – MES Client Overview
Section 1 – MES Client

• This section describes the MES Client interface.

Section 2 – Security

• This section describes the security settings in the Manufacturing Execution System software, including security groups, users, group privileges, and security parameters. 

Module 3 – Basic Operations Model
Section 1 – Modeling Overview

• This section briefly explains modeling, including the advantages of modeling MES in System Platform.
• It also describes the production model for the simulated manufacturing plant used in this course.

Section 2 – Entity Model

• This section describes physical entities, how they are defined and configured, and how to grant user access to them.

Section 3 – Entity Capabilities

• This section describes entity capabilities and how to enable them.
• It also describes the entity capabilities included within the Operations Capability Object.

Section 4 – Shifts and Shift Schedules

• This section provides an overview of shifts and shift schedules, and explains how to create and configure them.
• It also introduces the use of shift information for reporting purposes.

Section 5 – Product and Process Definition

• This section describes item classes, items, units of measure, processes, and operations.
• It also describes how to link items to a process.

Section 6 – Work Order Execution

• This section describes work orders, jobs, production counters and item reasons, and examines the runtime JobExec in the Operations Capability Object.
• It also explains response types (With and Without Response), event time (autogenerate), rejected message retrieval features, and the Rejected Message viewer.

Section 7 – Rejected Production Tracking

• This section explains how to relate item reasons to the concept of rejected production.

Module 4 – Storage Locations

Section 1 – Storage Capability

• This section describes the storage capability in the Operations Capability Object.
• It also describes storage options and how to use storage attributes to track the source and destination of transfers.

Module 5 – Genealogy
Section 1 – Bills of Materials

• This section describes the uses and components of bills of materials, consumption counters, and product genealogy.
• It also defines item sources and storage destinations.

Module 6 – By-Products

Section 1 – By-Products

• This section describes how to define by-products and how to track by-product production in runtime.

Module 7 – Item Grades, States, and Reasons

Section 1 – Item Grades, States, and Reasons

• This section describes the use of Item Grades, States, and Reasons, and explains how to use Item Reasons in runtime production and consumption counters.

Module 8 – Job Management

Section 1 – Job Management

• This section describes how to modify a job after a work order has been created and explains sequencing and filtering in runtime.

Section 2 – Schedule Jobs at a Parent Entity

• This section describes how to schedule jobs at a parent entity and run the jobs at child entities.

Section 3 – Job Creation

• This section describes how to create a job with the Operations Capability Object.
• It also compares data entry jobs with jobs created from a process.

Module 9 – Operator Visualisation
Section 1 – MES Operator

• This section describes the MES Operator application how to use it to manually track production.

Section 2 – MES .NET Controls

• This section provides an overview of the .NET controls included with the MES Operations software.
• It describes the .NET controls, explains how to import them into a Galaxy, and shows how to use them in an ArchestrA symbol.
• It also explains stateful versus stateless middleware connections.

Module 10 – Steps, Specifications, Spares, and MES Attributes
Section 1 – Operation Steps

• This section explains operation steps and step sequence numbers, including how to execute steps in an operation.

Section 2 – Specifications

• This section describes the use of specifications, how to configure global specifications, and how to assign specifications to operations in a process.
• It also describes how to enable and configure specification capabilities in an Operations Capability Object.

Section 3 – Spares and MES Attributes

• This section describes spare fields and attributes, and how to use them to record additional information for production operations.

Module 11 – Inventory Management
Section 1 – Inventory

• This section describes the capabilities of MES Operations for tracking inventory, including moving, receiving, and reclassifying inventory using attributes in the Operations Capability Object in runtime.

Module 12 – MES Intelligence Reports
Section 1 – Introduction to MES Intelligence Reports

• This section introduces how to run MES Operations-related reports using MES Intelligence Reports.