Global Configuration

Global Configuration is where you configure components that affect almost all aspects of Plant Applications.

From Schedule Statuses, you add and manage production schedule statuses. Schedule statuses indicate the status a process order is set at. The status can be used to indicate the various statuses a process order cycles through.
From Data Types, you add and manage data types, which defines what data type, such as “integer,” can be entered in associated variable cells.
From Data Source Types, you add and manage data source types, which are used to identify the source of data for a variable.
From Color Schemes, you manage color schemes, which you can apply to various displays.

From Reason Trees, you configure reason trees, which are used to identify reasons for downtime or waste and the actions taken.
From Subscription Information, you manage subscriptions, which allow Plant Applications to launch an upload of data to an external system, such as an ERP system, based on the status triggers you specify.
From Engineering Units, you add and manage engineering units and conversion information, which are units of measurement used in bills of materials.
From Administer Site Parameters, you change the default values of the site parameters, which are used to set global default values for items, such as passwords, number of log in attempts and directory locations, which are specific to a site.
From Administer Production Statuses, you add and manage production statuses, which are used to indicate the current status a production event is in on a specific production unit.
From Administer Calculations, you create and manage a library of calculations.
From Administer Alarms, you configure alarm, which compare data to product-based specification limits in real time and are used to alarm critical variables where acknowledgement of a violation is required.
From Administer Events, you add and manage event types, which provide a snapshot of data over a period of time or at a specific point in time.
From Administer Models, you manage event detection models, which are used to capture events such as reel turn-ups, batch starts/stops, product changes, consumption of product on a production line, and so on.
From Administer Language Prompts, you edit the translated prompts presented in the user interface.
From Administer Multi-Lingual Translation, you create two descriptions, one local and one global, for almost everything in the database.