Patent ID: 8744609

Claim:
A method of updating a manufacturing execution system (MES) database to include an MES entity corresponding to equipment modeled by a corresponding supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system object, the method comprising: providing a utilization object associated with the SCADA system object, the utilization object having an executable that, when executed, applies collected status data for the SCADA system object to a set of configured logical expressions to render a current raw reason code for the utilization object, the utilization object containing MES entity configuration information; extracting MES entity configuration information from the utilization object; invoking an interface functionality on the MES database to create the MES entity; providing a link between the utilization object and the MES entity; generating a second MES entity corresponding to a parent object of the SCADA system object; and monitoring SCADA system object performance and logging SCADA system utilization events by the first or second MES entity.