Release Notes for SAP ME 5.2
SAP Online Help June 19, 2009
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Release Notes for SAP ME 5.2 2 SAP Online Help June 19, 2009
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Release Notes for SAP ME 5.2 3 SAP Online Help June 19, 2009
Contents Release Notes for SAP ME 5.2...... 5 Terminology (Changed) ...... 6 Language Availability (Enhanced)...... 7 System Configuration...... 8 System Rule Maintenance (Changed) ...... 8 List Maintenance (Enhanced) ...... 9 System Setup Maintenance (Enhanced)...... 10 Custom Data Maintenance (Enhanced) ...... 11 Material Maintenance (Enhanced) ...... 12 Resource Maintenance (Enhanced)...... 13 Reason Code Maintenance (Enhanced) ...... 14 Genealogy Management...... 15 As-Built Configuration (Enhanced)...... 15 Assembly Point (Enhanced)...... 16 Resource Setup (Enhanced)...... 17 Resource Slot Config Setup and Load or Replenish Activities (Enhanced)...... 18 Slot Quantity Decrement (New)...... 19 Verify Bin Location Activity (New) ...... 20 Time-Sensitive Material Check In/Out (New) ...... 21 Check Time-Sensitive Components Activity (New)...... 22 Stop Time-Sensitive Clock Activity (New) ...... 23 Time-Based Tool to Discrete Activity (New)...... 24 Floor Stock Management...... 25 Maintain Inventory Activity (New)...... 25 Inventory Receipt (Enhanced)...... 26 Tool Management ...... 27 Tool Number Maintenance (New) ...... 27 Tool Group Maintenance (Enhanced) ...... 28 Tool Display and Log Tool Activity (Enhanced)...... 29 Tool Log Hook (Enhanced) ...... 30 Quality Management...... 31 Standalone Data Collection (New) ...... 31 Data Collection Maintenance (Changed) ...... 32 Data Collection Plug-In (Changed)...... 33 Nonserialized Nonconformance Logging (Enhanced)...... 34 WIP Management ...... 35 Change Equipment Status Activity (New) ...... 35 Log Comment Activity (New)...... 36 Comment Report (Enhanced) ...... 37 Start and Rich POD Start Activities (Enhanced) ...... 38 Sign Off and Rich POD Sign Off Activities (Enhanced)...... 39 Complete and Rich POD Complete Activities (Enhanced)...... 40 Reporting...... 41 Audit Log Report (New)...... 41 System Usage Report (New)...... 42 Die Level Tracking (New)...... 43 SAP ME Integration (Enhanced)...... 44
Release Notes for SAP ME 5.2 4 SAP Online Help June 19, 2009
Release Notes for SAP ME 5.2
SAP Manufacturing Execution (SAP ME) 5.2 contains new activities and enhancements. These updates are summarized in the following notes. For more information, see the relevant sections of the SAP ME 5.2 application help.
Release Notes for SAP ME 5.2 5 SAP Online Help June 19, 2009
Terminology (Changed) Technical Data
Product Version SAP ME 5.2
Country Relevance Valid for all countries
The following terms changed on the UI and in documentation:
• build-to-order -> make-to-order
• item -> material
• revision -> version
• router -> routing
For example, Item Maintenance -> Material Maintenance, Item/Rev -> Material/Vers.
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Language Availability (Enhanced) Technical Data
Product Version SAP ME 5.2
Country Relevance Valid for all countries
SAP ME supports the following new languages:
• French
• Japanese
• Portuguese
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System Configuration System Rule Maintenance (Changed) Technical Data
Product Version SAP ME 5.2
Area System Configuration; OPC Data Collection; Cognos and InetSoft Integration
Country Valid for all countries Relevance
The following system rules are disabled:
• OPCConnect Server Host
• Local Report Server Host
• Local Report Server Admin Host
SAP BusinessObjects reporting replaced Cognos reporting functionality. An automated plant connectivity (PCo) based solution replaced OPC functionality. Both solutions are accessed separately and have no associated SAP ME system rules.
The following system rules are renamed:
• Require Data Xchange Security Validation -> Require Legacy Security Validation
• Allow Remote Data Xchange Use -> Allow Remote Legacy Access
Effects on Data Transfer
Disabling OPCConnect Server Host prevents the manual transfer of data from an OPC client. It does not affect the automated transfer of data from an OPC client through PCo.
Disabling Local Report Server Host and Local Report Server Admin Host does not prevent the data transfer. In the new production metrics implementation, there is no connection between SAP ME and SAP ME BOBJ for data transfer.
Release Notes for SAP ME 5.2 8 SAP Online Help June 19, 2009
List Maintenance (Enhanced) Technical Data
Product Version SAP ME 5.2
Area System Configuration; Data Collection
Country Relevance Valid for all countries
The DC_STANDALONE list is new to the POD DCCollect category.
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System Setup Maintenance (Enhanced) Technical Data
Product Version SAP ME 5.2
Area System Configuration; Audit Logging
Country Relevance Valid for all countries
The following audit log settings are new:
• NC_CODE_DEF — for changes to the parts of the NC code definition made in NC Code Maintenance
• HOOK — for changes to attachment of hook point activities to other objects, made in NC Code Maintenance, Site Maintenance, Operation Maintenance, and Resource Maintenance
• APPLICATION_SETTINGS — for changes to application settings made in System Setup Maintenance
• ACTIVITY — for addition, deletion, or update of activities in Activity Maintenance
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Master Data Configuration Custom Data Maintenance (Enhanced) Technical Data
Product Version SAP ME 5.2
Area Master Data Configuration; Tool Management
Country Relevance Valid for all countries
The new Tool Number category allows to define custom data fields for tool numbers.
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Material Maintenance (Enhanced) Technical Data
Product Version SAP ME 5.2
Area Master Data Configuration; Time-Sensitive Material; Time-Based Component Traceability
Country Valid for all countries Relevance
The new TSM (Time-Sensitive Material) checkbox on the Main tab page activates the new TSM tab page. The values entered on this tab page define key attributes of material identified as time-sensitive. This prevents an expired material from being consumed in a product as it is being built.
The following new fields are new to the Build tab page:
• Time Base Component Type
• Consumption Tolerance
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Resource Maintenance (Enhanced) Technical Data
Product Version SAP ME 5.2
Area Master Data Configuration; Overall Equipment Effectiveness
Country Relevance Valid for all countries
The new Pending Status field on the Main tab page shows whether a status change is pending for the resource. The Pending status indicates that the resource status will be changed once all WIP is completed at the resource.
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Reason Code Maintenance (Enhanced) Technical Data
Product Version SAP ME 5.2
Area Master Data Configuration; Tool Tracking
Country Relevance Valid for all countries
The following reason codes are available for the new Equipment Status reason code category:
• PLANNED_IDLE
• PLANT_DOWN
The following reason codes are available for the new Inventory reason code category:
• INV_RECEIPT
• INV_CHANGE
• SCRAP
• RETURN_TO_INVENTORY
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Genealogy Management As-Built Configuration (Enhanced) Technical Data
Product Version SAP ME 5.2
Area Genealogy Management; Time-Sensitive Material
Country Relevance Valid for all countries
This activity now validates the location and reservation of a material before it is consumed by an SFC number.
Additionally, it validates that a time-sensitive component is checked out and does not have an expired floor or shelf life.
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Assembly Point (Enhanced) Technical Data
Product Version SAP ME 5.2
Area Genealogy Management; Time-Sensitive Material
Country Relevance Valid for all countries
The enhanced Group Assembly Point mode allows a user to enter a shop order or process lot rather than selecting all SFC numbers to enter assembly data values for components.
This activity validates the location and reservation of a material, before it can be consumed by an SFC number. It validates that a time-sensitive component is checked out and does not have an expired floor or shelf life.
It supports the consumption of serialized or nonserialized components and SFC numbers.
The new ENFORCE_ASSY_STATES activity rule enforces that an SFC number must be at an assembly operation before components can be consumed.
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Resource Setup (Enhanced) Technical Data
Product Version SAP ME 5.2
Area Genealogy Management; Tool Management
Country Relevance Valid for all countries
The new Tool Number setup type supports the time-based tool tracking functionality.
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Resource Slot Config Setup and Load or Replenish Activities (Enhanced) Technical Data
Product Version SAP ME 5.2
Area Genealogy Management
Country Relevance Valid for all countries
These activities do the following:
• Support splice and continuous components on a slot
• Support consumption tolerance for splice and continuous components
• Load one or more inventory IDs with a slot quantity on a slot for splice and continuous components
• Send an event when the slot quantity reaches zero
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Slot Quantity Decrement (New) Technical Data
Product Version SAP ME 5.2
Area Genealogy Management
Country Relevance Valid for all countries
This hook point activity decreases the slot quantity based on the SFC BOM quantity for time- based components under quantity control.
It is attached to a hook point at the operation, resource, or routing step.
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Verify Bin Location Activity (New) Technical Data
Product Version SAP ME 5.2
Area Genealogy Management
Country Relevance Valid for all countries
This hook point activity verifies bin location for a material.
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Time-Sensitive Material Check In/Out (New) Technical Data
Product Version SAP ME 5.2
Area WIP Management; Time-Sensitive Material
Country Relevance Valid for all countries
This activity checks in and checks out time-sensitive materials from a controlled environment.
While material is in a controlled environment, the maximum floor life clock is stopped but the shelf life continues to run. When material is out of the controlled environment the floor life clock is restarted.
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Check Time-Sensitive Components Activity (New) Technical Data
Product Version SAP ME 5.2
Area WIP Management; Time-Sensitive Material
Country Relevance Valid for all countries
This hook point activity validates all TSM components within SFC/nested SFC numbers for expiration.
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Stop Time-Sensitive Clock Activity (New) Technical Data
Product Version SAP ME 5.2
Area WIP Management; Time-Sensitive Material
Country Relevance Valid for all countries
This hook point activity halts the shelf and floor life clocks for TSM components that are consumed into an SFC number and are no longer time-sensitive.
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Time-Based Tool to Discrete Activity (New) Technical Data
Product Version SAP ME 5.2
Area WIP Management; Tool Management
Country Relevance Valid for all countries
This hook point activity converts a time-based tool to discrete and logs appropriate records to the database.
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Floor Stock Management Maintain Inventory Activity (New) Technical Data
Product Version SAP ME 5.2
Area Floor Stock Management
Country Relevance Valid for all countries
This activity allows you to update existing inventory ID records.
It sends core messages to SAP ERP if the material is scrapped or if quantity is returned to the warehouse.
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Inventory Receipt (Enhanced) Technical Data
Product Version SAP ME 5.2
Area Floor Stock Management
Country Relevance Valid for all countries
This activity allows you to locate or reserve component material consumed during assembly on the shop floor.
You can create multiple inventory IDs based on Receive Quantity and Lot Size values specified in Material Maintenance.
The following new fields support key attributes of time-sensitive material:
• Shelf Life Expiration Date
• Maximum Floor Life
• Maximum Floor Life Units
The following activity rules are new:
• APPLY_ALL_DATA
• AUTOMATIC_ID_GENERATION
• INVENTORY_LOCATION_REQ
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Tool Management Tool Number Maintenance (New) Technical Data
Product Version SAP ME 5.2
Area Master Data Configuration; Tool Management
Country Relevance Valid for all countries
This activity allows you to define lot and serialized tool numbers that are used during manufacturing operations.
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Tool Group Maintenance (Enhanced) Technical Data
Product Version SAP ME 5.2
Area Master Data Configuration; Tool Management
Country Relevance Valid for all countries
This activity allows you to define a group of common tools that are displayed during manufacturing operations.
The following fields are new to the Main tab page:
• Tracking Control
• Tool Quantity
• Location
• Time-Based
• ERP Group
The new Calibration tab page allows you to specify calibration settings for a tool group if integration is not in place.
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Tool Display and Log Tool Activity (Enhanced) Technical Data
Product Version SAP ME 5.2
Area WIP Management; Tool Management
Country Relevance Valid for all countries
This activity displays a list of tools in the Rich POD and allows the selection of tools to be logged manually as used at a manufacturing operation.
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Tool Log Hook (Enhanced) Technical Data
Product Version SAP ME 5.2
Area WIP Management; Tool Management
Country Relevance Valid for all countries
This hook point activity validates that all required tools are logged before the completion of a manufacturing operation.
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Quality Management Standalone Data Collection (New) Technical Data
Product Version SAP ME 5.2
Area Data Collection
Country Relevance Valid for all countries
This activity allows you to collect data values for a DC group defined for a resource or work center.
These additional collection types correlate quality defects to the resource or work center for SFC numbers processed during a specified period of time.
This activity is a standalone activity in the Activity Manager or a plug-in within the Standard (Web) and Rich PODs.
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Data Collection Maintenance (Changed) Technical Data
Product Version SAP ME 5.2
Area Data Collection
Country Relevance Valid for all countries
The following fields are new to the Main tab page:
• Collection Type
• Collection Method
• ERP Group
The following have been removed from the Parameter Detail screen of Data Collection Maintenance:
• OPC parameter types from the Type drop-down list located on the Main tab page
• OPC tab page
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Data Collection Plug-In (Changed) Technical Data
Product Version SAP ME 5.2
Area Data Collection
Country Relevance Valid for all countries
The following modes are new:
• Multiple – Group
• Multiple – Sequential
• Single
The following activity rules are new:
• ENFORCE_GROUP_MODE
• SHOW_APPLY_TO_ALL
The ability to collect OPC data through this plug-in is disabled.
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Nonserialized Nonconformance Logging (Enhanced) Technical Data
Product Version SAP ME 5.2
Area Quality Management
Country Relevance Valid for all countries
This feature, available in the Log NC clients and PCA Dashboard, is enhanced as follows:
The newALLOW_PARTIAL activity rule allows the immediate scrap of a partial quantity from a nonserialized SFC number without having to split a new SFC number.
The following new fields appear on the Log NC client screen when this rule is enabled:
• Disposition Qty represents the value entered in the Qty field on the POD or the quantity to be scrapped
• Total Defect Count Qty displays the sum logged for each nonconformance code and used to reduce the SFC quantity at this operation
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WIP Management Change Equipment Status Activity (New) Technical Data
Product Version SAP ME 5.2
Area WIP Management; Overall Equipment Effectiveness
Country Relevance Valid for all countries
This activity allows you to change the status of a resource, tool group, tool number, or work center to indicate the object is not available at a specific time. This activity is used for unscheduled downtime of the listed objects.
The following activity rules are new:
• COMMENT_REQUIRED
• REASON_CODE_REQUIRED
• DISPLAY_RESOURCE
• DISPLAY_WORK_CENTER
• DISPLAY_TOOL_GROUP
• DISPLAY_TOOL_NUMBER
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Log Comment Activity (New) Technical Data
Product Version SAP ME 5.2
Area WIP Management Valid for all countries Country Relevance
This activity allows operators to log a comment against a shop order, process lot, or one or more SFC numbers from the Activity Manager or the Rich or Standard POD.
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Comment Report (Enhanced) Technical Data
Product Version SAP ME 5.2
Area WIP Management; Reporting
Country Relevance Valid for all countries
The enhancements are as follows:
• The user can enter an SFC number, shop order, or process lot as a search criterion.
• The user can select multiple SFC numbers, shop orders, and process lots in the SFC browse or from the Rich or Standard POD and open this list of SFC numbers in the report.
• Comments are grouped by an SFC number.
• Comments can be viewed from the new Log Comment activity and other production activities.
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Start and Rich POD Start Activities (Enhanced) Technical Data
Product Version SAP ME 5.2
Area WIP Management
Country Relevance Valid for all countries
The Start function validates that the selected resource is in a current state to process product and is not in the Pending status. The newPending status indicates that the resource is active with a product but is scheduled for down time when the last active SFC number is completed.
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Sign Off and Rich POD Sign Off Activities (Enhanced) Technical Data
Product Version SAP ME 5.2
Area WIP Management
Country Relevance Valid for all countries
The Sign Off function resets the resource from Productive to the new Pending status when the last active SFC number is removed from the resource.
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Complete and Rich POD Complete Activities (Enhanced) Technical Data
Product Version SAP ME 5.2
Area WIP Management
Country Relevance Valid for all countries
The Complete function resets the selected resource from Productive to the new Pending status when the last active SFC number is completed from the resource.
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Reporting Audit Log Report (New) Technical Data
Product Version SAP ME 5.2
Area Reporting
Country Relevance Valid for all countries
This report provides information about changes made to audit-logged maintenance objects.
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System Usage Report (New) Technical Data
Product Version SAP ME 5.2
Area Reporting
Country Relevance Valid for all countries
This report provides the following system usage information:
• Average duration of all sessions active during a specified period
• Number of unique users with activity log records during a specified period
• Number of unique resources with production transactions performed during a specified period
• Total number of HTTP sessions active during a specified period
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Die Level Tracking (New) Technical Data
Product Version SAP ME 5.2
Country Relevance Valid for all countries
The Die Level Tracking feature, used in semiconductor industry, tracks an individual die on an SFC number within the SAP ME database without creating an individual SFC number for each die.
The relationship between the SFC number and the individual die is stored in new SAP ME database tables.
The following reports are new:
• SFC Location ID History
• SFC Location ID Status
• SFC Forward Location ID
• SFC Location ID Activity
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SAP ME Integration (Enhanced) Technical Data
Product Version SAP ME 5.2
Area SAP ME Integration
Country Relevance Valid for all countries
The following integration points are new:
SAP ERP to SAP ME
• Equipment Scheduled Downtime
• Inventory Receipt to Floor Stock with Batch
• Inventory Reservation
• Production Order Delete
SAP ME to SAP ERP
• Equipment Unscheduled Downtime
• Equipment Usage
• Inventory Return from Floor Stock
• Inventory Scrap from Floor Stock
• Inventory Remove Reservation
• Batch and Batch Characteristic Data Collection
SAP MII End User Applications
The following end user applications are new:
• OEE Report
• Line Monitor
• Resource Standard Cycle Time
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