Author Archives: Arne Manthey

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 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 […]

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.

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.

Presentation of SAP Plant Connectivity 2.1

A comprehensive overview on SAP Manufacturing with ERP.

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.

Tools to use during PI Sheet implementation.

See how the PI Sheet looks on an iPad

No session today 🙁

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 😉

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

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

Announcement of the new forum in the XStep Café

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 – […]

There is a report available (RCMXDATEST02) to test all MDA stuff. You can read or write OPC tags or send MDA broadcast events.

In this article I show how to integrate material-dependent safety symbols into the PI Sheet.

Recently I read a question on LinkedIn and SCN on how to avoid scrollbars for tables (aka repeated data requests).

Last time on September 12th there was no one coming online and therefore there is no recording available. Uwe had prepared something interesting on custom development enhancements which would enable XSteps also for Reference Operation Sets and Maintenance orders. I will put this topic now explicitly on the agenda for the next session and hope […]

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