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TSS-04
Wonderware MES:
Successful
Implementation &
Ongoing Support
Presented by:
Dan Scott
Agenda

● Configuring MES for success!

● Troubleshooting
● What’s New/Upcoming in Wonderware MES

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 Making a Wonderware MES
Project a Success

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What is Wonderware MES Middleware
and Where Should It Be Running?
● Observed as Wonderware MES Middleware Host in Windows Services
● Processes all MES database transaction requests from clients/objects
● Middleware is multi-threaded and can utilize multiple CPUs, but
increased transaction volume can cause delays

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EVERYONE Should Be Running Multiple
MES Middleware Servers
● Load distribution:
● Increase transaction bandwidth and performance
● Isolate high demand transactions such as background tasks, archiving
● Reduced chance of transaction timeouts
● Maintain uptime
● Spread out single points of failure
● Maintenance on one server won’t impact the entire plant
● Typically it does not cost the customer anything extra

Only demo applications should be running a single Middleware server!

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MES Middleware Server Licensing

● License required per Middleware Server

● MES Licensing changes require MES Middleware Host service restart
● Extra Middleware Server licenses are already included in your
purchase, listed as “Load Balancing” on the price sheet
● 5 equipment = 2 Middleware licenses included
● 10+ equipment = 6 Middleware licenses included

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Where to Run MES Middleware Server

● All AOS platforms hosting MES objects and/or MES API

● Middleware is not deployed, it must be installed manually
● 200-300 max total OCO/UCO/SRO/API objects per platform*
● 30-50 max total OCO/UCO/SRO/API objects per engine*
● Database server: dedicated Middleware for MES Service
● Background tasks, Archive/Purge, Supply Chain Connector, etc.
● MES client workstations: MES Operator, InTouch, etc.
● 50-100 clients per Middleware server*
● Terminal servers should have a dedicated local Middleware server

*Suggestions dependent on transaction volume and other factors

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Where to Run MES Middleware Server

● DB Maintenance Server (dedicated for Archive data)

● Archive/Purge/Restore actions are very transaction intensive
● Factory Connector
● Depending on transaction frequency, could be a dedicated server, otherwise
can be combined with server hosting MES Service

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Application Engine Load Management

● MES Object and MES API running in Application Objects

● All transactions are done via API
● Transacting with MES database takes time
● Considerations:
●Engine scan rate and load
●Script execution frequency
●Sync vs. Async scripting

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Managing MES UCO Raw Reasons

Changing Raw Reasons in rapid succession can result in lost events

● Currently UCO can handle current change, plus one queued event
● If events frequently occur less than 30s apart, consider logging a general
state and use Historian to record rapid transaction details.
● Development is currently working on revamping the UCO

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Managing MES UCO Raw Reasons

As with all MES transactions, many cascading updates need to occur,

which takes some time. For example, when a Raw Reason changes, the
following occurs at a minimum:
● Update duration on previous utilization event and close it out
● Create new utilization event
● Update current utilization reason
● Update previous Job/Utilization link durations
● Create new Job/Utilization link record
● Update OEE durations

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 Supply Chain Connector
● Questions to consider when deciding whether to use files or
tables:

• How much data will I be importing?

• How often will the data be imported?
• How much of the importing data will be new and how much will be
updating existing records?

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Common Transactions and Key Tables
● Jobs
● Job – Job and related Status.
●Contains total production count, allowing item_prod
details to be purged

● Job_exec – Active job information

●One placeholder record per allow Job Exec per entity
●Never delete records

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Common Transactions and Key Tables
● Jobs cont.
● Job summary but no running jobs?
●job_exec.cur_wo_id, cur_oper_id, cur_seq_no

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Common Transactions and Key Tables
● Jobs cont.
● Running job but no Job Summary is job.state_cd
1- NEW, 2- READY, 3-RUNNING, 4 – COMPLETE,
5 – SUSPENDED, 6 – ON HOLD, 7 – CANCELED

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Common Transactions and Key Tables
● Production
● Item_prod – Production details
●Maintain Distinct Good Production
Pros - Maintaining distinct production will give
representation of the production reported also
enabling tracking to a specific time when something
was produced.
Cons - Records in the item_prod table grow very rapidly and
can cause performance issue if not maintained correctly

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Common Transactions and Key Tables
● Utilization
● Util_exec – stores the current state data for each entity
● Util_log – Captures utilization data and a chronological
sequence of events for each machine. This
includes machine states, reasons, duration, number of
occurrences, and the actual times that the machine changed state
or reason etc
● Job_util_log_link - Captures the job(s) run during a particular “period” of
utilization (i.e. during a particular util_log record). Also captured is the
position on which the job was running, the main item the job produced, and
the portion of the utilization period during which it ran.

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Common Transactions and Key Tables
● OEE
● Oee_exec – Contains current OEE Characteristics such as
●Current OEE (updated by MES Service)
●OEE-related targets
●Current quality and performance %
● Tpm_stat - Holds raw OEE data statistics by job/hour/shift
●Duration summary per category
●Good and reject quantities

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Common Transactions and Key Tables

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Database Maintenance
● Database maintenance
● Truncate transaction logs and shrink files and database (TN 664)
● Check fragmentation. Reorganize or rebuild indexes
● Archive and/or Purge
● Large tables:
item_prod (Production details)
util_log (Utilization states)
tpm_stat (OEE stats)
● Tech Note 746 - Using MES Archive, Purge and Restore Functions

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 Troubleshooting
Wonderware MES

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Troubleshooting Transactions

● Middleware Trace
● Enable XML Trace of all middleware/SP
calls with parameters
● Middleware restart required
● File is c:\MWTrace.xml

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Troubleshooting Transactions

Example Middleware Trace contents:

<trace_object object_name="JOB_EXEC.ENDJOB" call_start_time="9/2/2015
9:32:03 AM" call_complete_time="9/2/2015 9:32:04 AM">
<stored_procedure_call>EXEC SP_U_JOB_EXEC_ENDBATCHJOBS
/*@ent_id Int32*/ 2, /*@wo_id String*/ '1', /*@oper_id String*/ 'Op1',
/*@seq_no Int32*/ 0, /*@job_pos Int32*/ 0, /*@status_notes String*/ null,
/*@user_id String*/ 'admin', /*@check_privs Int32*/ null, /*@check_certs
Int32*/ 1, /*@client_type Int32*/ 37, /*@no_propogation Int32*/ 0,
/*@check_auto_job_start Int32*/ null, /*@event_time_local DateTime*/ null,
/*@time_zone_bias_value Int32*/ -240</stored_procedure_call>
</trace_object>

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Troubleshooting Transactions

● SQL Trace
● MES Stored Procedures are well organized
●sp_BG_ - background tasks
●sp_D_ - delete
●sp_I_ - insert
●sp_U_ - update
●sp_S_ - select
●sp_SA_ - select all

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Troubleshooting Transactions

● Run SQL Server Profiler

● Events Selection tab
● Disable Audit events
● Enable SP and TSQL
● Click Show All Columns
● Click Column Filters

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Troubleshooting Transactions

● Set filters on:

● DatabaseName: MES database
● TextData: SP(s) to be tracked
●% as wildcard

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Troubleshooting Transactions

● Run SQL captured from trace in SQL Management Studio

● Wrap with BEGIN TRAN and ROLLBACK TRAN to run without committing
● Use F11 to step through and watch variables

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MES Log Messages

● MES SMC Log Flags

● UCO – EquipmentStatusRuntime1
● OCO – JobExecutionRuntime1
● SRO – SampleCharacteristicRuntime1
● Entity Model Builder – EntityModelBuilder
● MES Service – FactMES.Server.Services
● MES ArchestrA Objects
● .ErrorMessage attributes on many levels

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 What’s New in
Wonderware MES

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MES 2014 SP1 – Current Release

● Wonderware MES Web Portal

● Line Monitor tab in MES Web Portal
● Automatic bottleneck detection
● Utilization reasons:
● Automatic rollover and priority
● Auto disable entities for OEE calculation
● MES Quality Management
● Sampling based on production unit counts
● SRO – trigger on-demand samples

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Wonderware MES 2014 R2

● Anticipated Release in Q4 2015

● Sales Brief / Posting early 2016
● Version 5.2
● Includes about 40 Hotfixes since MES 2014 SP1 Release
● Still uses MES 5.0 version license file
● Existing MES 4.0 or 4.5 license files must be upgraded

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Wonderware MES 2014 R2

● Adding Support for Windows 10

● Drop Support for Windows 2008
● Support for SQL Server 2014 SP1
● Continued support for SQL 2008 R2 and 2012 (including R2)
● Not Bundling SQL Server on DVD
● Drop Support for SQL Server 2008
● Drop Support for Oracle 11G R2
● Oracle is no longer a supported database for Wonderware MES

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Wonderware MES 2014 R2

● Compatibility Statement
● System Platform 2014 R2 and 2014 supported
● Will test with latest service pack / patch

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Utilization Capability Object Changes

● Updated Code to Latest AppObject Toolkit

● Removed Production Counters
● The UCO counters were not consistent with the OCO
● OCO counters have been recommended for last few years
● Turn Off Logging of Utilization Events (Manual mode)
● Import / Export of Raw Reason Codes (XML)
● Without Response Mode for Logging Events
● Migration of Old UCO to New UCO

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UCO Code Update

● Essentially a Rewrite of the UCO in the New AOT

● Added Default Batch Size to Entity Configuration
● Allow for Entry of Spare Fields in Configuration
● Coordination of Sessions between UCO, OCO, and SRO
● Handling of Array Variables in RRC Expression
● Improved Handling of I/O Quality for all Attributes
● Improved Failover
● Improved Handling of Out-of-Bounds Data and Mismatch Datatypes

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UCO Update

● Editor updates

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Security Related Changes

● Remove FactWeb Access as an Installation Option

● Hide the FactWeb Access from the Installation
● Still include it on the DVD
● Customer will need to copy files manually to use it
● Part 1 of GetDSbySQL Remediation
● No change to existing methods of GetDSbySQL
● Add new method GetDSbySP to execute a custom stored procedure
● Add new method ExecSP for when there is no returned dataset
● Next release to limit GetDSbySQL to only allow a SELECT statement

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API Changes

● Create New Stateless API Namespace Commerce

● This is to expose some Supply Chain Connector options within the stateless
API
● WEI will replace Supply Chain Connector in a future release
● In the Commerce Namespace Add:
● Cust class for base table transactions (customers)
● SO class for base table transactions (sales orders)
● SOLine class for base table transactions (sales order line)
● Add new DataLog48 class

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