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Assigning Values to Process Instruction Characteristics

In Customizing, you define process instruction characteristics for process instruction categories. You can assign values to process instruction characteristics:

in Customizing
in the master recipe
in the process order

As a prerequiste for the creation of control recipes values must have been assigned to all process instruction characteristics. These can be classified as follows:

process instruction characteristics that are not defined for automatic value assignment and for which you have to enter values manually

process instruction characteristics that are defined for automatic value assignment, where

- you can initiate the value assignment in the process order (function Assign
values autom.)
- you can enter the values manually in the process order (even after the
function Assign values autom. has been executed, for ex. to change
generated values)
- during control recipe creation, the system automatically assigns values to all
those characteristics that have not been assigned values as mentioned
above

To assign values to process instruction characteristics in the process order, proceed as follows:

Select the desired phases in the operation overview and choose Goto ® PI overview.

Select the desired process instruction characteristics in the process instruction overview and choose Goto ® PIC overview.
Assign values to the process instruction characteristics as follows :

Characteristics with indicator T (for value assignment with long text, X in column T) :

Select the characteristic.

Choose Edit ® Long text.

Enter the long text and save it.

Characteristics without indicator T :
Enter the desired value in the field Characteristic value.

Characteristics with indicator A (defined for automatic value assignment, X in column A) :

Enter the desired value in the field Characteristic value (= manual value assignment); or

select the characteristics and choose Edit ® Assign values autom.; or

do not assign a value at all.

Use field help for information on the logic used for the automatic value assignment (in column A for the desired process instruction characteristic).

When the control recipe is created, values are assigned automatically only to those process instruction characteristics defined for automatic value assignment to which no values have been assigned so far.

If necessary, you can also change values (exception: process instruction characteristics for which a change has been excluded during Customizing, for example, the order number) or delete values.
To delete a value, select the desired process instruction characteristic and choose Edit ® Delete values.

In addition to this, you can add further process instruction characteristics in the process instruction characteristic overview. You add process instructions characteristics in the same way as during master recipe maintenance. For more information, see Maintaining Process Instructions on the Characteristic Overview.