Process Instructions for Process Manufacturing Cockpits 

Use

To define process manufacturing cockpits, you can use universal process instruction categories of type 0 available in Customizing. You cannot use the other process instruction types in the cockpit definition.

Integration

In Customizing for the cockpit definition, you can define process instructions as follows:

The process instruction categories that you create in the cockpit definition are only available there and cannot be used in master recipes or process orders.

You can refer to all process instruction categories of type 0 contained in this Customizing activity. When you refer to existing process instruction categories, changes that are made in the Customizing activity Define Process Instruction Categories also affect the process instruction in the cockpit definition.

You can copy all process instruction categories of type 0 contained in Customizing. When you do so, the link to the original process instruction category is lost.

Prerequisites

For the system to be able to process the process instructions correctly in the cockpit, they must contain certain characteristics and be structured according to specific rules. Note that some process instruction characteristics may not be used in cockpit definitions.

The following sections describe the structure of universal process instruction categories (type 0) that are used in cockpits.

 

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

Features

You can use process instruction type 0 both in PI sheets and manufacturing cockpits. However, the following functions though available in PI sheets are not supported in cockpits:

This means that you may not use the following characteristics in cockpits:

Characteristic

Meaning

PPPI_GLOBAL_VARIABLE

Defining a value as a global variable

PPPI_DECLARE_VARIABLE

Declaring existing global variables

PPPI_VARIABLE_TYPE

Type of the global variable you have declared

PPPI_SIGNATURE_STRATEGY

Signature strategy for digital signatures

PPPI_SIGNATURE_MODE

Signature mode (synchronous or asynchronous)

PPPI_PREDECESSOR

Number of the predecessor phase

The following functions are supported in process manufacturing cockpits: