Author Archives: Arne Manthey

Mass creation and assignment of XStep objects to routings, master recipes, or manufacturing orders

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.

Presentation on new functionality in EhP5

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 […]

Electronic Batch Record (EBR)

Stylesheets

Unfortunately the recording of this session was not properly done due to some error on Adobes side. Therefore I cannot give you the recording and I am very sorry about this! Maybe you take this as a motivation to attend the live web session more often 😉

Meta data in PI Sheet header, Commands & Events, Partial confirmations with tables,…

Commands on process steps, F4 help with material number prefilled, Rework, custom symbols/generation,…

Misc. / MII for Batch Manufacturing

Characteristics and Process Messages

Tabular values and function modules

How to add a custom action in the context menu of the Xstep Repository

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)

Weighing Scenario

Introduction

Embedding MII Analytics

Just chatting and some talk about weighing

Shift Notes and Misc.

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 […]