MES Object Editor

MES Object Editor | Vision

The MES Object Editor component installed with the Production module manages the relationships among MES objects. Control the look-and-feel by setting display colors and configure with drag-and-drop.

Ignition Component Palette for Vision

Many of the relationship to MES objects is used to manage manufacturing resources, segments and operations. All considered MES Objects in the MES platform (see ISA-95 for more information about the various MES objects) within a class grouping structure: Equipment, personnel and materials for batch processing, workflows, oee, and spc control.

For the MES Object Editor component to find the MES Object Selector, it must be in the same container on the window. It is okay to be in a container, they just both have to be in the same container or root container. The results are at the same level or higher in MES Object Selector When a new class, segment or operation is added, the MES Object Selector selection will change to reflect the newly added MES object. This doesn't happen when adding a new child in order to keep the primary MES object shown.

Creating Material relationships with the MES Object Editor

A Material Class can only be added as a child to another Material Class. Nesting classes multiple levels deep is allowed and can be considered a 'best practice' for organizing a large number of materials moving through a factory.

A Material Definition should only be added as a child to a Material Class. It can also be added as a child to more than one Material Class, which is helpful when a particular raw material logically belongs in several places.

To add an object as a child of another object, click and drag it onto the drop target ( ) of the intended parent object:

DateTime Support

When creating Custom Properties and selecting DateTime as the DataType, users may set or bind in using any Ignition-supported datetime format. The Material Definition functions .setPropertyValue and .getPropertyValue will set and retrieve datetimes properly.

Ignition-supported datetime formats (refer to Dates on the Ignition website).

64-bit integer
"yyyyMMdd.HHmmssSSSZ"
"yyyy-MM-dd"
"MM/dd/yyyy"
"MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss"
"hh:mm:ss a"
"hh:mm a"
"MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss a"
"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS"
"yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss"
"EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss z yyyy"

Component Properties

Properties are provided that can be set to affect the operation and look of the component. They can be set through the Property Editor in the Designer or through scripting.

event.source.parent.getComponent('MES Object Editor').rightSplitPaneWidth = 2

Data Properties

Appearance

Relationship Panel

Selector Panel

Event Handlers

Event handlers provide the ability to add custom script when a user interacts with a component such as by clicking a mouse, selecting a menu item or when a component property changes.

menu

mouse

mouseMotion

propertyChange

Extension Functions

This component does not have extension functions associated with it. 

Custom Methods

Custom methods allow you to add your own component functions to a component that can be called through scripting. This is a useful and clean method of re-using script that is specific to the component (say you want to update a visual aspect of the component in the same way whether a user clicks on the component or a window property value changes). See Component Custom Methods in the Ignition Help Manual for more information.

Customizers

This component does not have any custom properties.

Component Functions

This component provide the following functions that can be called on it.