1998 PI System Users’ Conference PI Gateway to SAP R/3 Gretchen M. Schwenzer, Ph.D OSI Software, Inc.

1998 PI System Users’ Conference Corporate Benefits of Integration Accurate Planning Reduced Inventories Accurate Production cost tracking Accurate Material Tracking Focused Maintenance Accurate record keeping for Quality Certification Uniform Specification Confirm Product Availability in near real time Production Targets

1998 PI System Users’ Conference Data Needs at the Plant Floor All data values at Fine time resolution Historical Data Trending Methods to make ad-hoc comparisons Overview of Plant and Key Performance Indicators Zoom-in to Problem areas for analysis

1998 PI System Users’ Conference Data needs at the Enterprise Level Summarized data Data by Major Event Reconciled Data Final Calculation Data Isolated measurements Overview of Business Key Performance Indicators Zoom-in to key Problem Areas

1998 PI System Users’ Conference Requirements for Translation of data from the Plant Floor to the Enterprise Performance Calculations Flexibility for external application calculations Manual correction and audit trail Interface to many control environments Syncronize time data requests and replies Mixture of Enterprise process and Plant floor Process Batch tracking Point alias and grouping Equipment Alias and grouping Schematic and trending view into both enterprise and plant data Error Trapping and recording Easily adaptable to changing business

1998 PI System Users’ Conference SAP PP-PI (PI-PCS) and OSI-PI/Plant Suite SAP Functionality  Process Order creation to meet order requirements  Track material inventory  General Recipe for material  Track cost of production OSI Functionality  Collects and distributes actual data for material consumption and production and utilities  Translates general recipe to batch execution system  Maintains history of recipe that was run and reported values to enterprise  Graphically presents current and historical data for analysis  Combines recipe data with process variables for analysis

1998 PI System Users’ Conference SAP Equipment (PM-PCS) and OSI PI/Plant Suite SAP Functionality  No. of hours on stream trigger maintenance  Alarm limits for equipment trigger maintenance  Maintenance scheduling using human resource and stores constraints OSI Functionality  Consolidates equipment variables for analysis and improvement of plant performance in conjunction with process conditions  Monitors and reports alarms and no. of hrs. on stream to trigger SAP maintenance  Graphical plant view into Plant and SAP data

1998 PI System Users’ Conference SAP QM (QM-IDI) and OSI PI/Plant Suite SAP Functionality  Quality of goods receipt  In-process quality specification  Quality of goods shipped and certificate of analysis  Specification Library  Company quality test requirements OSI Functionality  Capture data at source  Specification disbursed to industrial desktop  Integrates Quality data with process data for plant analysis  Disburse Quality worklist to plant floor  Reporting Flexibility  Interface to Lab Systems

1998 PI System Users’ Conference SAP Directions SAPGUI will be windows control container with 4.0 SAP support of DCOM, Microsoft Transaction Server 4.0C for distributed BAPI’s BAPI’s and RFC interface SAP strategic directions

Plant Suite Server Integration Using OLE Automation MMPM SD PP-PI QM SAP R/3 Applications RFC’S (Remote Function Calls) SAP Automation Server OLE NT Workstation NT Applica- tions SAP GUI Plant Suite Server Microsoft SQLServer PI Historian Points of Integration Partners Tools FIX Industrial Desktop Applications Process Book PI PID PI-Batch

1998 PI System Users’ Conference MessagesRecipe SP 88 Model Tag Mapping Material Mapping Instruction Translation Assign a Procedure Request Handling Action Results (wait until complete) PSRLINK Reply Batch Execution System (optional) PI Batch (optional) PI System SAP Man. Messages PI System Gateway to SAP R/3

1998 PI System Users’ Conference PSRLINK SQL SERVER Tables

1998 PI System Users’ Conference SAP PI-PCS to PI Server  Track message request and reply  Translate message request into retrievable info  Represent the recipe in SP88 format  Open interface to multiple systems  Support batch execution systems Client  Single view of recipe and process data

1998 PI System Users’ Conference Turning a Production Request into Action Continuous process - set start date and time and use duration such as shift, day, etc. Batch Execution System such as PID’s Openbatch Setting status of tags in PI via Control System, Visual Basic application or other program.

1998 PI System Users’ Conference PP-PI Instructions Supported AORD_1 Order Information AMAT_1Material Information APHASE_1Phase Information ACRST_IRecipe Status AOPST_IOperation Status APHST_IPhase Status ACONS_1Material Consumed APROD_1Material Produced AREAD1Read Values AREAD2Multiple Read Values APHACTActivity Confirmation AQMSMR Quality Data APHAPR_1Puts values in PI

1998 PI System Users’ Conference

SAP PM-PCS to PI Server  Determine if value is in Alarm state  Track status of posting in SAP  Map SAP location identifier to PI identifier Client  Graphic launch into SAP  Present data from PI and SAP in same window

VBA Scripting in ProcessBook

1998 PI System Users’ Conference SAP QM-IDI to PI Server  Inspection Lot and Inspection Point Processing  Transfer Quality specifications to PI for Process  Map QM data to Process Variable Client  Analyze Quality and Process data together  Support Hand-Held Terminal Collection

1998 PI System Users’ Conference Role of the Data Historian and ProcessBook in Integration Collection of raw data from control environment Performance Calculations Environment for external calculations Alarming Batch records Storage of Calculated Data Single presentation tool for all data

1998 PI System Users’ Conference PSRLINK Gateway to SAP R/3 Advantages Microsoft infrastructure (MS SQL-Server, VBA, etc.) Network access from any ODBC compatible Application ProcessBook as Front End History of recipe and batch execution Services continuous and batch processes Tag and Material mapping, Alias handling Extensive Error Checking of the SAP recipe Component of Plant Suite Server Native Interfaces to PI System and OpenBatch Interface to other systems through PI and/or customization Trace all data requests from SAP

1998 PI System Users’ Conference SAP Certification What Does It Mean Clear scope of functionality supported RFC’s and BAPI are interfaced with C++ or VB not ABAP Building 3rd party interfaces to SAP requires knowledge of areas of SAP which are not generally available Access to Key people at SAP and early information about releases Access to SAP development machine Use SAP standard software and techniques Committed partnership by SAP and OSI

1998 PI System Users’ Conference Customers Dow Corning Hoechst Westvaco Georgia Pacific Mossgas Sumitomo Chemical Hercules Codelco Wacker Montel Amplats + others ProGold Sterling Diagnostics Installed Interest to Evaluations

1998 PI System Users’ Conference Future Developments for RLINK and Plant Suite Transaction Server and DCOM support Interface to MM Additional BAPI support Enhancements to Plant Suite Server

1998 PI System Users’ Conference SAP Sources to SAP Customers wwwext.sap.com/usa/saplabs.htm to locate which partners are certified Compkementary Software Partner Directory USA-1SAP PP contact SAP Waldorf Claudia Coppola 49/6227/746775, main no 49/6227/  MM-MOB Mobil Data Entry  QM_IDI Quality Management  PP-PDC Channel 2 Plant Data Collection  PI-PCS Process Control System Interface  PP-POI Production Optimization  PM-PCS Plant Maintenance (not listed on web page)