AVEVA™ MES Operation 2023 , 16-18 July 2025 (3 days)

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 the fundamental concepts and architecture of System Platform.
• Section 3 – Manufacturing Execution System – Operations Overview
  • This section describes the functionality, architecture, and component hierarchy of Manufacturing Execution System – Operations, and provides an overview of the client applications.
• Section 4 – System Requirements and Licensing
  • This section describes hardware requirements, software requirements, and licensing for Manufacturing Execution System – Operations.

Module 2 – MES Client Overview 

• Section 1 – MES Client
  • This section describes the MES Client user 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, and describes 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, including how to define and configure them, and how to grant them user access.
• 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 shifts 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, and production counters, and examines the runtime JobExec in the Operations Capability Object. It explains event response types (With and Without Response), event time (autogenerate), the rejected message retrieval feature, and the Rejected Message viewer.
• Section 7 – Rejected Production Tracking
  • This section explains how to create Item Reasons and how they relate 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 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 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 the production of a by-product 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, and compares a data entry job with a process job.

Module 9 – Operator Visualization 

• Section 1 – MES Operator
  • This section describes the Operator application and how to manually track production.
• Section 2 – MES .NET Controls
  • This section provides an overview of the .NET controls included with MES Operations software. It describes the Operations .NET controls, how to import them into a Galaxy, and how to use them in a symbol and a layout.

Module 10 – Inventory Management 

• Section 1 – Inventory
  • This section describes the capability of MES Operations to track inventory, including the capabilities to move, receive, and reclassify inventory using attributes in the Operations Capability Object in runtime.

Module 11 – Steps, Specifications, Spares, and MES Attributes 

• Section 1 – Operation Steps
  • This section explains steps, step sequence numbers, and 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 use specification attributes and commands in the Operations Capability Object to configure and execute specifications.
• 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 12 – MES Intelligence Reports 

• Section 1 – Introduction to MES Intelligence Reports
  • This section introduces how to run production operations-related reports using MES Intelligence Reports.

Module 13 – Application Maintenance 

• Section 1 – Middleware Customization
  • This section describes tools for configuring middleware operational parameters.
• Section 2 – Database
  • This section describes mechanisms for creating, backing up, and upgrading MES databases.
• Section 3 – Data Archive, Purge, and Restore
  • This section describes how to use the Database Maintenance module in MES Client to archive, purge, and restore MES databases.

Appendix A – MES API References 

• Section 1 – Stateful API
  • This section describes the Stateful API and the Stateful API wrapper.
• Section 2 – Stateless API
  • This section describes the Stateless API and the Stateless API wrapper.
• Section 3 – Web API
  • This section describes the Web API.