Author Archives: Arne Manthey

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

Misc. / MII for Batch Manufacturing

Characteristics and Process Messages

Tabular values and function modules

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,…

Stylesheets

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)

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.

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

Archiving of Xsteps – Part 3

Feasibility Study: Xsteps for Standard Routings and Maintenance Orders

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 […]

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.

XSteps for External Systems

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.

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 – […]