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You can use this function to automatically print production-related documents, such as travelers, labels, and packing lists, at defined points in the manufacturing process.

Prerequisites

  1. You have set up printing feature (see Setting Up ADS Printing).

  2. You have set up the ADS Document Print (SY521) activity as an activity hook, at the point where you want to print the document, as follows:

    1. Insert ADS Document Print (SY521) at the appropriate hook point.

    2. Enable the activity hook.

    3. Specify the name of the document to be printed as the user argument.

    For more information, see Setting Up Activity Hooks and ADS Document Print.

Features

Automatic printing can be triggered at different points depending on which hook points you have set up ADS Document Print (SY521). For example, you can set up automatic printing on shop order release, operation start, SFC serialize or relabel. In this case, the document defined as User Argument at the activity hook point is automatically printed when the hook point activity is executed.

For example, if you set up the ADS Document Print (SY521) activity in Operation Maintenance at POST_START hook point with the document Label_A defined as the User Argument value, Label_A is automatically printed right after the operator performs the Start (PR500) activity at that operation.

Note that you must enable the hook and assign your document to the material for the activity hook to work.

You can set up automatic printing at the site, operation, resource, or routing step level (see Setting Up Activity Hooks).

The figure below illustrates the primary flow of user actions when performing automatic printing:

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