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Use

In process instructions, you can use predefined characteristics to define process steps that you want:

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

Prerequisites

Process instructions that you assign to a phase in the master recipe and process order must be assigned to a certain process instruction category. You must first have created these process instruction categories in Customizing for Process Management. They serve as a kind of template for the process instruction you use in the master recipe and process order.

Every process instruction category you create in Customizing must itself be assigned to a process instruction type.

Features

When defining process instructions, you must decide whether you want a process operator to process them manually or whether they will be processed automatically by a process control system. Depending on where the process instructions will be processed, you can pass on different types of information in them.

You can define the following information in process instructions that are transferred to the R/3 PI sheet:

For more information, see Process Instructions for the R/3 PI Sheet.

You can define the following information in process instructions that are transferred to a process control system:

For information on how to structure the information in process instructions for process control systems and the R/3 PI sheet, see Process Instruction Structure.

Activities

When you release the process order, the system automatically performs the following activities:

 

 

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