AVEVA MES Performance Training

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

• Determine hardware requirements and software components necessary to deploy a working Manufacturing Execution System Performance implementation
• Configure and license Middleware connections between multiple nodes in a network
• Select one of the three Security Modes, define Users, and set permissions
• Model plant equipment (Entities) in the Manufacturing Execution System (MES) Performance database (MESDB) manually or using the Entity Model Builder
• Enable entity capabilities in the MESDB database to track Performance data in a production environment
• Define entity Utilization States and Reason Codes
• Record and edit Reason Codes in MESDB database
• Use objects in a Galaxy to automatically monitor equipment Performance Events
• Create Work Orders and Jobs to run against a production line
• Use Manufacturing Execution System Performance as a central downtime information repository and reporting tool

Application developers, engineers, system integrators, consultants, and other individuals who need to use Manufacturing Execution System 2020 R2 – Performance in their manufacturing or other processes.

Knowledge of the following tools, features, and technologies is required:
• Application Server and InTouch for System Platform

Module 1 – Introduction
Section 1 – Course Introduction

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

Section 2 – Manufacturing Execution System Performance Overview

• This section explains the functionality, architecture, and component hierarchy of Manufacturing Execution System Performance.
  
  

Section 3 – Manufacturing Execution System Performance Components

• This section describes the components of the Manufacturing Execution System Performance architecture.
• It also discusses the client and configuration tools.

Section 4 – System Requirements and Licensing

• This section describes the hardware recommendations, software requirements, and licensing for Manufacturing Execution System Performance.

Module 2 – Manufacturing Execution System Client and Web Portal

Section 1 – Manufacturing Execution System Client and Web Portal

• This section describes the interface of the MES Client application and Web Portal.

Section 2 – Security

• This section describes the security settings in MES Software, including security groups, users, group privileges, and security parameters.

Module 3 – Utilisation and Entities
Section 1 – Utilisation Overview

• This section discusses the basic concepts of utilisation, as well as the concept of equipment types and associated reasons/states.

Section 2 – Entities Overview

• This section defines an entity, discusses entity parameters, including capabilities and Identical Job Execs, and addresses user access in both MES Web Portal and MES Client.

Section 3 – Utilisation States and Reasons

• This section discusses utilisation and how to define utilisation states and reasons.
• It also explains utilisation groups.

Section 4 – Performance Events

• This section discusses how to use Web Portal to add events, edit events, and split/merge events.
• It also addresses the Auto Refresh feature of Web Portal.

Module 4 – Overall Equipment Effectiveness and Lines
Section 1 – Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Introduction

• This section discusses what OEE is, including Performance parameters and quality of goods produced.

Section 2 – Line Introduction

• This section introduces lines, including the lines required for performance and quality calculations, and single and multi-entity lines.
• The discussion includes explanations of Standard Item, Rate, UOM (unit of measure), and Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE).
• Parent entities are also defined, including how they relate to shifts, as well as items and item classes.

Section 3 – Shifts and Shift Schedules

• This section provides an overview of shifts and shift schedules and explains how to create and configure them.
• It discusses after-hours reporting and parent entities and describes assigning shifts to the parent entity of a line.

Section 4 – Items

• This section provides an overview of items and discusses the Product Definition group, which you use to create and configure units of measure, items, and item classes.
• All the Product Definition group functions are discussed, including the reason codes and reason groups.

Section 5 – Single-Entity Lines

• This section provides a discussion of single-entity lines, including entity parameters, such as utilisation and OEE, and line parameters for a line, line layout, and line access.

Section 6 – Work Orders

• This section provides an overview of work orders and work orders as they relate to jobs.

Module 5 – Automating Performance and Multi-Entity Lines
Section 1 – Modeling Overview

• This section provides an overview of manufacturing activity modeling and describes the production model for the simulated manufacturing plant used in this course.

Section 2 – Entity Model Builder

• This section discusses the Entity Model Builder and explains how it is used.

Section 3 – Multi-Entity Lines

• This section provides a discussion of series equipment, segments, and line and job positions.
• It also addresses additional parameters for multi-entity lines.
• These parameters include bottlenecks—automatic versus manual bottleneck modeling and Entity Enabled, production sources (bad and reject), and standard item for a line, including unit of measure conversions.

Section 4 – Utilisation Capability Object Overview

• This section discusses the Utilisation Capability Object (UCO) and explains its functionality and usage.

Section 5 – Operation Capability Object Overview

• This section provides an overview of the production counters and their effect on OEE calculations.

Section 6 – Setting Work Order Information for a Line

• This section discusses extra runtime attributes available when using MES objects, such as Work Orders.

Section 7 – Parallel Equipment

• This section discusses the features of parallel equipment.
• It covers split jobs, sequence numbers, the Start next sequence option, automatic determination of bottlenecks, reason priorities, and the bottleneck switch.

Module 6 – Visualisation
Section 1 – Visualisation Overview using InTouch and .NET Controls

• This section describes some of the MES .NET client controls for MES Performance, as well as the basic configuration and settings needed for the controls to function.

Module 7 – Reports
Section 1 – Intelligence Reports

• This section discusses using MES Performance as a central downtime information repository and reporting tool.

Module 8 – Application Maintenance
Section 1 – Middleware Maintenance

• This section discusses the tools that are used to configure middleware components.

Section 2 – Database Maintenance

• This section discusses the mechanisms that are used to create, back up, and upgrade databases.

Section 3 – Data Archival, Purge, and Restore

• This section designates the tool you should use to back up MES data.