You use this function in master recipes to determine which production resources/tools (PRT) are required to carry out an operation or phase.

You can subsequently assign the PRTs as test equipment to the inspection characteristics of the operation or phase.

PRTs are not taken into account in recipe scheduling or product costing. As PRTs cannot be used in process orders at the moment, they do not affect capacity requirements planning, availability check, or confirmation.

The PRTs must have a master record in the system. Depending on the PRT category, the following additional conditions have to be met:

• Materials, equipment, and documents must be released for use as production resources/tools in their status

• PRTs with a PRT master record (miscellaneous) must be released for resource planning in their status

• PRTs with material master records, PRT master records, or equipment master records must be intended for use in master recipes in their task list usage

You can assign several PRTs to an operation or phase and one PRT to several operations and/or phases.

During assignment, you can enter data that determine how PRTs should be treated during order processing. As PRTs cannot be used in process orders in Release 4.0, this data does not have any functional significance in PP-PI. This includes:

• The PRT control key

• Data on the quantity, usage value, and usage dates of the PRT