Author Archives: Arne Manthey

MDA: Creating notifications / Rework scenario

When you use XSteps to define PI Sheets or Electronic Work Instructions the automatic valuation (e.g. material number) and the generation of elements (e.g. material component list) are important features. To provide even more flexibility new custom-defined valuation symbols or generation scopes can be included.

Recently I got a question on an error message in an SXS: „The system repeatedly accesses parameter XXX in change mode“ (Message number CMX_PII006). After I analyzed it I came across a mis-use of parameter categories.  

Recently I got the question on how to use live parameters to transfer data between two PI Sheets. Here is a little example.

MDA Broadcast, dynamic table, field validation (Answering questions from Google+)

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

Please check out this presentation on weighing and dispensing with PI Sheets and Process Operator Cockpits at Forest Laboratories from the 2012 ASUG annual conference.

See how the PI Sheet looks on an iPad

A comprehensive overview on SAP Manufacturing with ERP.

The only way to archive PI Sheets and delete the corresponding database tables is to use the EBR functionality. For all other cases (Test PI Sheets or PP-based Electronic Work Instructions) archiving is not possible. However, deletion of old entries from the database becomes essential for maintainng the performance of the ERP system. In this article I describe a pilot note which solves this dilemma.

To start with a custom stylesheet development the first step is to understand the basic structure of the standard XSL stylesheet which is used to define the conversion of the XML structure to the HTML-based PI Sheet you see in CO60. So here is a simplified structure overview which shows all major template blocks in […]

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 […]

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