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alias: user-guide-index
description: "This guide offers comprehensive information across various system sections and functionalities"
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# User Guide

## Target Audience

The User Guide is the broad application reference for Critical Manufacturing MES UI functionality. It covers general concepts, administration, low code, business data, manufacturing, maintenance, quality, planning and logistics, business intelligence, automation, and data platform functionality. This section is primarily intended for:

* End users
* Application administrators
* MES configurators
* Super users and key users
* Domain specialists in manufacturing, maintenance, quality, planning, logistics, automation, and analytics

## Guide Contents

This User Guide includes the following sections:

* [General Concepts](general/index.md) - includes common information that applies to the complete user interface functionality.

* [Administration](administration/index.md) - provides help regarding the Administration section.

* [Low Code](low-code/index.md) - provides help regarding the Low Code entities in the system.

* [Business Data](business-data/index.md) - provides help regarding the Business Data section and the various objects that it contains.

* [Manufacturing](manufacturing/index.md) - contains an overview and description regarding the Manufacturing section.

* [Maintenance](maintenance/index.md) - provides an overview and description regarding the Maintenance section.

* [Quality](quality/index.md) - provides an overview and description regarding the Quality section.

* [Planning and Logistics](planning-and-logistics/index.md) - provides a description of the Planning and Logistics section.

* [Business Intelligence](business-intelligence/index.md) - provides help regarding the Analytics section.

* [Automation](automation/index.md) - provides help regarding the Automation section.

* [Data Platform](data-platform/index.md) - contains information on the IoT Data Platform components.