Author Archives: Arne Manthey

MDA: Creating notifications / Rework scenario

Blog Announcement & Misc.

How to display the material description with 40 characters in the PI Sheet.

Once you have decided to enhance your PI Sheet with additional functionality using XSL/CSS you will find out that it is not so easy and quick to test your result using the ERP system itself (Downloading, uploading, maybe changing MIME types,…) It would be so much easier to try your changes on a local filesystem and […]

When I saw Apple’s presentation on the iPad I was very excited. I also own an iPhone privately and I find it very useful. So I am definitely interested in having one for me. 🙂 But then I also started thinking about other more business-like usages for that device. One obvious use case is for […]

Misc. / MII for Batch Manufacturing

When connecting external systems from ERP via the PI-PCS interface you might want to check the content in ERP first. Here are some hints where to look and what to look out for.

Since January 27th 2010 there is a new template on the SDN called Batch Manufacturing with SAP MII: The batch manucfacturing templates extend the SAP MII architecture by providing prebuilt, plant and role-specific composites to support manufacturing preparation, execution, documentation and reporting. Batch manufacturing with SAP MII delivers preconfigured templates for 9 application areas – […]

When a table in the PI Sheet has more than 10 lines the scrolling of the table content is activated. When you scroll down the headers of the table columns get lost because they are also in the scrolling area. This is of course not very user friendly. In the following section I describe a […]

It is very easy to create and manage standard XSteps (SXS) in the repository. However if you want to use the same function in different plants you have to maintain the SXS in every plant separately since the repository is plant dependent. You can export and import for an initial creation but then you have […]

Alternate Units of measure / Cross-plant SXS Repository (OSS pilot note)

Simple example of a function module with tabular parameters to fill or analyze a PI Sheet table.

This is a presentation on a consulting solution for a weigh and dispense solution.

To start with a custom stylesheet development the first step is to understand the basic structure of the standard XSL stylesheet which is used to define the conversion of the XML structure to the HTML-based PI Sheet you see in CO60. So here is a simplified structure overview which shows all major template blocks in […]

Once you create an order the explosion date for all master data is set to the start date of that order. Since this might happen well before the actual execution date you might want to change something on short notice in the XSteps section before you actually create a control recipe.If you have release the […]

Validation issues and demo of the new BAdI for changing the SXS explosion date

There might be situations where you want to handle the adding of lines in a repeated data request (table) entirely with commands or with function modules and tabular parameters. In such a case you usually want to avoid that users can manually create new lines by pressing the small button at the bottom of the […]

There was a question by Maddy in the Topic Discussion section about the maximum number of table lines (more than 999) which I would like to answer here.

In this article I give you a guide on the correct sequence you need to follow when using process instructions of type 0 (no XSteps)

Chatting about Weighing/OPC, beginners tips, etc.