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Overview Production Planning for

Process Industries
Process Message
Definition
Communication structure that is used to transfer actual process data from
process control to one or several destinations of the following types:
Other R/3 components
User-defined ABAP tables
Users of the SAP-office mail system
External function modules

The information contained in a process message is determined by the
message characteristics as well as the characteristic values assigned
to them.

A characteristic in a characteristics group that has been released for
use in process messages. Process message characteristics are
assigned to process message categories. Together with the
corresponding characteristic values, they determine the content of a
process message.
Process Instructions
Use
In process instructions, you can use predefined characteristics to define
process steps that you want:
To be executed manually by a process operator at a production line
To be executed automatically by a process control system
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.
Process Instruction Category
Definition:

Process instruction categories are standard process
instructions that have been predefined in Customizing for
Process Management and that usually do not have specific
characteristic values assigned. They serve as a kind of
template for the process instruction you use in the master
recipe and process order.
Process Instruction Type
Definition:

Process instruction types are keys that have been define in
Customizing for Process Management and that you must
specify when you create a process instruction category.
You use the process instruction type to determine which
functions are to be supported in the process instruction
category. Depending on whether the process instruction
category is defined for the PI sheet or a process control
system, you must use the corresponding process
instruction type.
Process Instruction Type
For information processing by process control systems, you can
use the following process instruction types:
Type 1: process parameter
Type 2: process data request
Type 3: process message subscription

For information processing using the PI sheet, you can use the
following process instruction types:
Type 0: universal process instruction category
Type 1: process parameter
Type 2: process data request
Type 4: process data calculation formulas
Type 5: inspection results requests
Type 6: dynamic function calls
Type 7: sequence definition
Type 1: Process Parameters for PI
Sheets
Use

You can define the following information in a process parameter
by assigning characteristics:
Control information displayed on the overview screen of the PI
sheet
Additional notes displayed in the PI sheet on one or more detail
screens
The individual elements are displayed in the PI sheet in the
following sequence:
All long texts according to their sort numbers
All other control information according to sort number
Pushbuttons for calling up the notes

Type 2: Process Data Request
Process instruction that specifies that process
control is to send a process message with actual
process data to the SAP System.

A process data request contains the following
information:

Process message category to use for the process message
Information to provide by process control

Type 4: Process Data Calculation
Formula
A type of process instruction that specifies that a
value must be calculated in the PI sheet.

This value is then sent to a destination using a
process message.

The process data calculation formula specifies:
Value to calculate
Formula to use for calculation
Message category of the requested process message

Type 5: Inspection Result Request
Process instruction that specifies the operations
and phases for which inspection results must be
recorded. For these operations and phases, the
function for recording inspection results can be
accessed directly from the PI sheet.

This function can only be used if there is an
inspection lot and appropriate characteristics for
the process order.
Type 6: Dynamic Function Calls
Use:
You can use this function to call certain R/3 functions while
maintaining the PI sheet. Function modules created for the R/3
functions to be called are used to realize the function call.

Prerequisites:
The function module to be called must be defined in the Function
Builder and must be active.

For details on the individual function modules, see the
corresponding section below.
Calling of any Transaction
Accessing of Order Confirmation
Displaying of Material Quantity Calculation
Displaying of Documents From Document Management System
Calculation of Time Intervals and Dates

Type 7: Sequence Definitions
In a sequence definition, you need to specify
the number of the phase which has to be
finished before the phase containing the
sequence definition can be processed in the
PI sheet.
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