Sepasoft MES Module Suite

MES Equipment

The MES Equipment Manager for Perspective is installed with the MES Production Module. The Equipment Manager allows you to define your manufacturing process in a tree view form and provides an organized way to configure, control, and analyze your manufacturing activities for all of the core MES modules including Batch Procedure, OEE, SPC, Recipe, Track & Trace. It provides the foundation on which the MES modules are built including defining the Equipment Path that the system uses as reference throughout the configuration.

Production Equipment Model

The Production Equipment Model is a hierarchy of Sites, Areas, Lines with Cell Groups, Cells, Process Cell(s) with Units, Locations, Storage Zones and Storage Units. Typically, Lines and Cells are used to represent machinery or equipment where a process occurs transforming raw materials into sub-assemblies or finished goods. Storage Zones and Storage Units are typically used to define where to get or store material.

Lines with Cells and Process Cells with Units defined in the Production Model should be considered to be equipment that is bolted to the floor and has conduit running to it. Mobile equipment such as pallets, bins, dies used for pressing, etc. are not defined in the Production Model, but configured in the MES Object Editor as Supplemental Equipment.

Using Equipment Manager to Build and Configure Your Production Equipment Model

The MES Equipment Manager component can be dragged onto a view from the Production Component Palette, to allow run-time building and editing of your Production Model configuration and settings.

For information about each of these elements in a Production Equipment Model, see Production Equipment Model Overview.

Copying an equipment path to the clipboard is only supported over HTTPS client-connections and is browser dependent.

	For larger UI buttons for touch screens, use the style properties and increase the padding.

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Name

Definition

Add

Adds an element to the Equipment Model based on the selected item in the hierarchy.

For information about each of these elements in a Production Equipment Model, see Production Equipment Model Overview.

Selected in Tree:	Option to add:
Enterprise	Site
Site	Area
Area	Line
	Storage Zone
	Location
	Process Cell
Line	Line Cell Group
	Line Cell
	Location
Process Cell	Unit
Storage Zone	Storage Unit

Edit

Opens the item for editing: adding a description or making Active.

Selected in Tree:	Provides Editing Options:
Enterprise	Name and description. Name should not be changed during the development of a project.
Site	Name and description. Name should not be changed during the development of a project. Active: checkbox to activate the element within the Production Equipment Model.
Area	Name and description. Name should not be changed during the development of a project. Active: checkbox to activate the element within the Production Equipment Model.
Line	Name and description. Name should not be changed during the development of a project. Active: checkbox to activate the element within the Production Equipment Model. Multi-Operation Capable: Allows multiple operations on the line. Without this enabled a Line does not allow more than one operation.
Process Cell	See settings: Process Cell Settings.

Delete

Deletes an item and its children if present.

If an item is configured and connected to MES objects, you cannot delete the item and a warning message displays. You need to remove the reference before deleting. In addition, if an operation is running on a cell, cell group or line, that item cannot be deleted until the operation is stopped.MES-5306

Copy

Context Menu offers two selections:

Copy Item: Copies the item selected in the Equipment Model tree.
Copy Equipment Path: Copies the hierarchy as a path e.g., Enterprise\Site\Area\Process Cell

Important

Copy Equipment Path requires a security certificate (HTTPS) or using localhost.

Paste
Pastes the item under a valid selection in the Equipment Model

Move

Move items within a Process Cell:

Move First
Move Up
Move Down
Move Last

Activate
Deactivate
Activates and deactivates the items in the system.

Toggle Column Visibility
Option to set Name and Description to hidden.

Searches the object names in the production equipment tree.

Equipment Manager 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.

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Python

self.getSibling("mesEquipmentManager").enableEquipmentAdd = True

These properties listed in the table below set behavior within the Equipment Manager UI.

See below for a list of scripting functions to use for configuration.

enableEquipmentAdd

Boolean

When true, a user may add new equipment. This includes via the menu or by pasting.

When False, the Plus icon in the header is disabled.

Version specific: In MES 3.81.11 SP3 and later, this property also controls the visibility of the Paste button in the browser. The buttons displays when set to True.

All

enableEquipmentDelete

Boolean

When true, a user is able to delete equipment.

When False, the delete icon in the header is disabled.

All

enableEquipmentEdit

Boolean

When true, a user is able to edit (move, rename) equipment.

When False, the Edit icon in the header is disabled.

Version specific: In MES 3.81.11 SP3 and later, this property also controls the visibility of the Licensing panel in the browser. The panel displays when set to True.

All

enableEquipmentStatus

Boolean

When true, a user is able to enable or disable equipment.

When False, the icon to make equipment active/inactive is disabled.

All

enableGeneralSettingEditing

Boolean

When true, the Settings menu option under "General" is displayed, when applicable.

All

enableAdditionalFactorsEditing

Boolean

When true, the Additional Factors menu option under "General" is displayed, when applicable.

SPC

enableGeneralCountersEditing

Boolean

When true, the Settings menu option under "Counters" is displayed, when applicable.

OEE

enableGeneralTagCollectorsEditing

Boolean

When true, the tag Collectors menu option under "General" is displayed, when applicable.

OEE

enableGeneralShiftEditing

Boolean

When true, the Shift menu option under "General" is displayed, when applicable.

OEE

enableGeneralLiveAnalysis

Boolean

When true, the Live Analysis menu option under "General" is displayed, when applicable.

All

enableOEEDowntimeDetectionEdition

Boolean

When true, the Downtime Detection Method menu option under "OEE" is displayed, when applicable.

OEE module must be installed.

OEE

enableOEEModeClassEditing

Boolean

When true, the Mode Class menu option under "OEE" is displayed, when applicable.

OEE module must be installed.

OEE

enableOEEStateClassEditing

Boolean

When true, the State Class menu option under "OEE" is displayed, when applicable.

OEE module must be installed.

OEE

enableSPCSettingEditing

Boolean

When true, the Settings menu option under "SPC" is displayed, when applicable.

SPC module must be installed.

SPC

enableSPCControlLimitsEditing

Boolean

When true, the Control Limits menu option under "SPC" is displayed, when applicable.

SPC module must be installed.

SPC

enableSPCSampleIntervalEditing

Boolean

When true, the Sample Intervals menu option under "SPC" is displayed, when applicable.

SPC module must be installed.

SPC

enableSPCOutOfControlSignalEditing

Boolean

When true, the Out of Control signals for equipment is editable.

SPC

enableSPCSampleIntervalEditing

Boolean

When true, the Out of Sample Intervals for equipment is editable.

SPC

enableSPCOutOfControlSignalsEditing

Boolean

When true, the Out of Sample Signals for equipment is editable.

SPC

enableSPCSampleEventEditing

Boolean

When true, the Sample Events for equipment is editable

enablePaging

Boolean

When true, navigation controls are displayed.

All

enableRecipeValuesEditing

Boolean

When true, the Values menu option under "Recipe" is displayed, when applicable.

Settings & Changeover module must be installed.

Available in 3.81.8 RC1 and later

Settings & Changeover

enableRecipeSecurityEditing

Boolean

False by default. When true, the Settings and Changeover security entries for Equipment setpoints are editable.

Available in 3.81.8 RC1 and later

Settings & Changeover

enableTraceLotHandlingEditing

Boolean

When true, the Lot Handling menu option under "Track & Trace" is displayed, when applicable.

Track and Trace module must be installed.

Track & Trace

requireChangeNote

Boolean

Changes to setpoint settings require a note to save.

Available in 3.81.8 RC1 and later

Settings & Changeover

Scripting functions can be used to configure equipment regardless of property values.

Style Properties

The Equipment Manager component has these style sets and each one has the same set of style tags. The tags under each style can be accessed by clicking the notepad icon to the right of the style name.

buttonStyle

The tree below displays the set of style tags that are part of every style set and is copied from the Ignition style definition for its components.

Ignition Style Editor

	Refer to the Ignition 8 docs page Style Reference and Style Classes for information on modifying the properties listed below.

checkboxStyle

dialogStyle

dialogButtonUserStyle

dialogDivideStyle

dialogTitleStyle

inputStyle

inputDropDownStyle

listCheckboxStyle

listItemStyle

listStyle

listHeaderBadgeStyle

listHeaderStyle

menuStyle

sectionStyle

tableStyle

tableHeaderStyle

toolbarStyle

tooltipStyle

treeStyle

Position Properties

The component position properties aren't usually changed by users during runtime, but they can be written and read in the same manner as other properties, if ever needed. Refer to Ignition Perspective Component Properties for details on POSITION properties.

New user-defined position properties can be created in this section.

User-defined Properties

	Best practice: If user-defined properties are required, create them in the CUSTOM section instead of here.

Custom Properties

New user-defined custom properties can be created in this section.

Meta Properties

This section contains the name and visibility properties for the component.

New user-defined meta properties can be created in this section.

User-defined Properties

	Best practice: If user-defined properties are required, create them in the CUSTOM section instead of here.

Sepasoft MES Module Suite

MES Equipment Manager | Perspective

MES Equipment

Equipment Manager Properties

Style Properties

Position Properties

User-defined Properties

Custom Properties

Meta Properties