Overview

Leveraging the MES hierarchical entity model created in your application, you can schedule jobs at the parent entity and run them at the child entity.

You can pick up one of the children entities to run the job. By running the job at one of the children entities, you can decide in runtime on which machine or location you want to run jobs. For example, if you have two identical production lines and a production area, you can select anyone of the two production lines to run the job because the lines are identical.

In the ArchestrA IDE, define an application object for the parent entity and then define an application object for running the job. For the parent entity, check the Entity Can Schedule Jobs check box on the General tab for the object and assign the entity to the area where you would like to schedule the job. For the child entity, check the Entity Can Run Jobs check box on the General tab and assign the entity to the area where you would like to run the job.