Characteristic-Based Process Instructions for PI Sheets

Use

You must define production-related processing steps that have to be performed manually by a process operator at a resource in the process instructions. There are two different types of process instructions:

Integration

You assign process instructions to the phases of a master recipe and process order.

Prerequisites

For the system to be able to process the process instructions correctly in the PI sheet, they must contain certain characteristics and be structured according to specific rules. The following sections describe the structure of the process instruction types that make up the individual elements of a PI sheet.

The depth of knowledge of the characteristic structure of the individual process instruction types you require depends on the function you use to create your process instructions (see Manual Process Instruction Maintenance ):

  • If you use the process instruction assistant, you will be guided through process instruction definition by specific prompts. The characteristic structure is created by the system.

    Caution Caution

    Note that at present you cannot use the process instruction assistant to define process instructions of Type 0: Universal Process Instruction Category .

    End of the caution.

  • If you maintain your process instructions in the characteristic overview, you must create the characteristic structure yourself.

Features

When you define characteristic-based process instructions for the PI sheet, you can choose between seven different process instruction types. The process instruction type controls the processing of the information using the PI sheet. Which process instruction type you use, depends on the following:

  • Whether you want to create the PI sheet in the HTML layout or in ABAP list format

    Depending on the layout in which you want to display your PI sheet, you must send your control recipes to the appropriate control recipe destination type .

  • Which functions you want the process instruction to support

You can use the following process instruction types for browser-based and ABAP list-based PI sheets :

In addition , you can use the following process instruction type for browser-based PI sheets :