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For the person who runs a line and wants to know what it did.

Page Type Read it when
Your first line tutorial you have ten minutes and a laptop
Connect to Kepware — IT how-to you need an endpoint, an account and a certificate from whoever owns the server
Connect to Kepware — Engineering how-to you need the tag addresses from whoever knows the machines
Reading OEE how-to the OEE screen shows a grey segment and you want to know why
Never invent production explanation you want to know why this MES will say unknown to your face

The posture on a real plant is read-only observer: the MES subscribes to tags and computes what it sees. Nothing writes toward a PLC unless a plant turns on the recommendation queue, and then a person approves each write.