Author Archives: Arne Manthey

As an additional way to discuss I decided to create a new community in Google+ for the XStep Café. I hope you find it useful

A new OSS note (1453716) is available which includes a lot of new standard function modules you can use in your implementation.

Since I am traveling to Sydney for the next 2 weeks I have to shift the next session to the 19th. If anybody lives in Sydney and wants to have a chat – send me an email 😉

No session today 🙁

See how the PI Sheet looks on an iPad

Tools to use during PI Sheet implementation.

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.

A comprehensive overview on SAP Manufacturing with ERP.

Presentation of SAP Plant Connectivity 2.1

Since I am now working on SAP Plant Connectivity as a new topic I wonder whether I should also cover this here and in the web sessions. First let me explain in a nut shell what PCo is.

If you have assigned components to different phases or operations you may want to get an overview of all components regardless of their phase assignment at the start of the PI Sheet or Electronic Work Instruction. Here is the way how to do it.

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 […]

I get many questions on the RDS Batch Manufacturing, how it works and whether you can also use XSteps with it. Here are my thoughts.

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.

New Features of SAP Plant Connectivity 2.2

I recently found the question on the Google+ forum about how to find Standard XSteps which match a certain condition. In that particular case all XSteps need to be found which have an input field with validation and the ‚Never accept‘ error handling.

Since you and I had problems in the past with the Adobe format of my recordings I have now decided to convert all available session videos to a more common format. I also created a playlist in Youtube and uploaded all videos there: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUqejpPnilJ-mo6Vs6BEYMPk0CtPJiP26

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 […]

Fact Sheet: Shift notes and reports

Uwe Dittes has posted an interesting article on new functionalities of XSteps.