How You Initiate Operation Execution at Automation Equipment

Follow these steps to initiate start of operation at automation equipment :

Navigate to the Work Execution work area.
On the Overview page, click the Tasks panel.
Select the Review Dispatch List link.
Expand the work order operation that uses automation equipment and has quantity in Ready status.
Click on the Execute button.

Oracle Manufacturing sends the work order operation details such as the work order number, operation sequence, quantity to be processed, preassigned serials and lots to be used in IoT Production Monitoring. In addition, it sends the name of the program file, the current revision to be used, the location of the program file if defined, equipment parameter values, inspection characteristics names, to IoT Production Monitoring to further communicate with the automation equipment. If an inspection plan is defined, Oracle Manufacturing also sends the identifier of the plan for IoT Production Monitoring through the integration with Oracle Quality Management, to orchestrate automatic quality inspection and disposition based on the sensor data received from automation equipment.

Upon successful communication with the automation equipment and initiation of operation execution, a confirmation message displays based on the response received from IoT Production Monitoring. In addition, the previous quantity in Ready status is moved to in-process status. The in-process status is applicable to in house operations that use automation equipment and indicates that the quantity is currently being processed by the equipment.

Note: This capability is supported in the following use cases:

Serial-tracked operation execution
Discrete work order execution with a single preassigned lot
Work order operations with a single resource, the resource being enabled as an automation equipment, and that has a single resource instance assigned to it. An error message displays if the operation has multiple resources or resource instances associated to the operation.

From the dispatch list, you can also navigate to the digital twin view of the automation equipment in IoT Production Monitoring to review the real time contextual telemetry data, and execution status of the operation by clicking on the Monitor Equipment button after expanding a work order operation record that has a quantity either in the Ready, or in In Process status.