Author Archives: Arne Manthey

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

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

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

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 […]

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 […]

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 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.

Misc. / MII for Batch Manufacturing

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 […]

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 […]

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

Blog Announcement & Misc.

MDA: Creating notifications / Rework scenario

Discard PI Sheets from order

OPC

Flexible generation scopes / QM integration

Customer Case: Abbott

Misc, Archiving w/o EBR

XSteps for External Systems

Embedding MII Analytics