Forge MES Glossary

Before you begin

• No earlier cookbook topic is required.

How the workflow connects

Step-by-step in Forge MES

1. Plant: the manufacturing context that owns and isolates operational data.
2. Site: a physical location within the Plant.
3. Line: a production lane that receives unit-level tasks.
4. Station: a work point used by a Routing operation.
5. BOM: the Components and quantities required for a Product.
6. Routing: the connected sequence of operations a unit follows.
7. Work Order: the executable instruction to produce a Product quantity.
8. Production Task: one finished unit moving through production.
9. Genealogy: the relationship between finished units, consumed material, packaging, and shipment.

Rules to remember

• Use Product for finished output and Component for input material.
• Use Production Order for grouping and Work Order for execution.
• Use Repair for fixing a failed unit and Rework for repeating controlled manufacturing operations.

Configure for the client

• Use the reference as a baseline, then document the client's enabled capabilities, responsible roles, approval matrix, terminology, integrations, and environment-specific decisions.
• Validate the configured behaviour with approved test data in the target environment before production use.

Ready when

• Local factory terms are mapped to the Forge MES term.
• Users can distinguish similarly named records.