Category Archives: General Discussion

Dear XStep Café community! Recently an error was reported that massively affects loading and changing PI Sheets/Electronic Work Instructions (transaction CO60, CO60XT, and COEBR): The HTML control only displays the text ‘Loading…’ but the PI Sheet/EWI is not displayed. If the loading log is displayed no error messages are displayed. The message is missing that […]

Just recently I got an email with some questions and very detailed problem description. Usually I don’t mind this and I put such mails (or any Google+ or blog comments) into my queue for looking at it some time later (if the mail has a clearly formulated question, which also is not always the case). […]

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.  

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.

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

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 […]

Announcement of the new forum in the XStep Café

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See how the PI Sheet looks on an iPad

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.

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 […]