Plant

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
Beside your existing MES	tutorial	you have an afternoon, a real line, and an MES already running on it
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
When a control chart notices something	explanation	a quality hold appeared with a rule number on it, and you want to know what else the MES will do
Shifts	reference	you want a number for your shift, or a row says not attributed
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.