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An electronic document, containing instructions, pictures, drawings, or other visualizations to demonstrate to an operator how to perform a task at a manufacturing process or resource. These documents provide important characteristics about the setup, procedure, process steps, and expected results at the manufacturing operation.

 

You can view work instructions from a POD by choosing a button associated with the Work Instruction List or Work Instruction Viewer (see Work Instruction List and Work Instruction Viewer).

Work instructions can be displayed automatically and manually. For more information, see Setting Up Work Instructions.

Structure

A work instruction record can have the following attributes:

  • Status

  • Required

  • Current Version

  • Log Viewing

  • Change Alert

  • Type

For more information, see Work Instruction Maintenance and Work Instruction Table.

Types of Work Instructions

There are two types of work instructions:

  • Text

    Plain text (up to 1024 characters) entered in the Text field of Work Instruction Maintenance

  • URL

    An HTML browser-compatible file stored in a folder managed by Microsoft IIS or another web server product

    Example Example

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Integration

In order for a work instruction to be accessible from a POD, the work instruction must be associated to one or more of the following SAP ME objects:

  • Customer order

  • Material

  • Material group

  • Operation

  • Resource

  • Resource type

  • Routing

  • SFC number

  • Shop order

  • Step ID

  • Work center

For more information, see SAP ME Objects.

Additionally, you can associate work instructions with NC clients in NC Client Maintenance (see NC Client Maintenance).

Caution Caution

If a work instruction is associated with multiple objects, all of the objects must be in effect in the POD for the work instruction to be viewed.

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