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Configuring Product Definitions
The OEE Downtime Module provides the OEE Material Manager - Vision component to help manage product codes and product code line configuration information. Whatever they are called in your company, whether Product Codes, Pack Codes, SKU's, they all represent the products that are manufactured within your facility. In order to track production counts, calculate OEE Metrics and estimate how long it should take, we need to know what products or materials are being processed and the expected production rate that the line should be capable of.
In OEE Downtime, Product codes are known as Material Definitions and the same framework (object model, scripting functions) is used by both the Track & Trace Module and OEE Downtime Module. This provides a seamless integration between OEE and Track & Trace when you want to provide lot tracking and genealogy as well as production scheduling and OEE analysis.
The OEE Module is a standalone application in that everything needed for product code configuration, scheduling production runs, starting runs and analyzing production data is provided. However, many enterprise implementations take account of the fact that ERP systems, Industrial Engineering or Inventory Management Systems also maintain a list of Product Code information. The MES Product Suite coupled with Ignition, provides the ability to use Web Services or middleware table and script functions to create an interface to obtain product code information from other systems. This ensures that product codes are kept up to date and eliminates duplicate data in multiple systems. If more information is available in other systems regarding product code line configuration, that too can be brought over and scripted to provide the information needed by the OEE and Scheduling Engines.
Configuration items:
- Creating Materials
- OEE Material Production Settings
- Configure Routing by Material
- Adding Custom Properties to Materials
Configuring Product Codes Manually
The Material Manager component allows you to define which product codes can run on which lines. In addition, the settings for a product code may vary depending on the line it is being produced on and those settings can be defined here.
Configuring Product Codes from ERP
For companies that have ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) or other IT System that has product code information, an interface can be created to pull that data and add or update product code configuration settings automatically from it.
The actual type of interface created will be dependent upon the supported and preferred method(s) of the ERP / IT administrators.
The Sepasoft MES Product Suite provides a Web Services module that can consume SOAP and RESTful API's, but built-on Ignition means that we have many ways that we can interface to access the data.
Middleware tables tends to be a common choice providing a neutral method for the dissemination of information between multiple systems without creating any binding tie that is specific between those systems.
MES script functions: system.mes.bc system.mes.ws
The system.mes namespace provides a set of script functions that can be used to take information passed from a third party system to create the necessary materials and configuration data.
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