Implementing SAP MII

by Dipankar Saha, Chandan Jash, Sudipta Mukherjee, Supriya Malakar, Abesh Bhattacharjee

Overview

Tap into bi-directional integration and analytics with SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence. With this bestselling guide, get step-by-step instructions for configuring SAP MII, managing external data connections, developing composite applications, and more. Dive into business logic service transactions and use visualization services such as i5 display templates and web reports. Run SAP Overall Equipment Effectiveness Management by mastering activities, dashboards, downtime maintenance, audit log checks, and shop-floor user interfaces. Your nitty-gritty guide to SAP MII is here!

Highlights include:

1) Data connections and management
2) Message servers
3) Composite applications
4) Manufacturing data objects
5) Business logic service transactions
6) Visualization services
7) Plant information catalog (PIC)
8) SAP Plant Connectivity
9) SAP Overall Equipment Effectiveness Management

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781493223428
Publisher:	Rheinwerk Publishing, Inc.
Publication date:	02/23/2023
Edition description:	Enlarged
Pages:	705
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dipankar Saha is the IT architect and service delivery lead for SAP MII and SAP ME at IBM India. He previously worked for SAP Labs India and was involved in the design and development of SAP MII; he co-wrote the SAP PRESS book on SAP MII, Implementing and Configuring SAP MII in 2009.

Chandan Jash is a senior advisory system analyst at IBM India who has been working with SAP solutions for 8 years. He has worked on a number of SAP MII and ME implementation projects in different roles. He has helped build SAP ME competency inside IBM, and currently works as an architect and SME for SAP ME implementation projects.

Sudipta Mukherjee is an application architect at IBM who focuses on SAP MII, SAP ME, OEE, SAP BTP, SAP PAI, and SAP Workflow Management solutions. Full bio to come.

Supriya Malakar is a senior consultant at IBM who works with SAP’s digital manufacturing solutions: SAP MII and SAP ME, SAPUI5, SAP DMC, and SAP BTP. Full bio to come.

Abesh Bhattacharjee has experience developing SAP MII composite applications, integrating MII with other UI technologies such as Adobe Flex, and generally playing around with it. The results of his experiments are generally documented on his SDN blog. He moderates the SAP MII forums on SDN and is an SAP Mentor.

Table of Contents

... Preface for the Second Edition ... 15

... Target Audience ... 15

... How This Book Is Organized ... 16

... Conclusion ... 17

... Acknowledgments ... 17

1 ... SAP MII as an Industry 4.0 Implementation Platform ... 19

1.1 ... From Traditional Manufacturing to Industry 4.0 ... 19

1.2 ... The Need for a Composition and Integration Platform to Enable Industry 4.0 ... 24

1.3 ... SAP MII as a Manufacturing Integration Platform ... 27

1.4 ... SAP MII as a Manufacturing Intelligence and Analytics Platform ... 29

1.5 ... SAP OEE Management as a Manufacturing Performance Management Platform ... 34

1.6 ... Application Architecture of SAP MII ... 35

1.7 ... Use Case Scenario ... 37

1.8 ... Summary ... 38

2 ... Setting Up SAP MII ... 39

2.1 ... Software Components and Installation ... 39

2.2 ... Security and SAP NetWeaver AS Java Administration ... 40

2.3 ... SAP Plant Connectivity Installation ... 47

2.4 ... Postinstallation Configurations of SAP MII ... 53

2.5 ... Summary ... 82

3 ... Managing Data from External Systems ... 83

3.1 ... Using SAP Plant Connectivity ... 83

3.2 ... Connecting to External Systems Using Data Servers ... 106

3.3 ... Data Access ... 130

3.4 ... Message Services: Synchronizing the Shop Floor with the Enterprise ... 131

3.5 ... Summary ... 143

4 ... Developing Composite Applications ... 145

4.1 ... Projects and Configurations ... 145

4.2 ... Using the SAP MII Workbench ... 148

4.3 ... Using Query Templates to Query Data from External Systems ... 155

4.4 ... Types of Query Templates ... 168

4.5 ... Summary ... 182

5 ... Manufacturing Data Objects ... 183

5.1 ... Types of MDOs and Their Usage ... 184

5.2 ... Using an MDO as an Application Data Store ... 185

5.3 ... Creating and Configuring MDOs ... 185

5.4 ... On-Demand MDO ... 191

5.5 ... Joined MDO ... 191

5.6 ... MDO Query ... 194

5.7 ... OData Modeler ... 198

5.8 ... Summary ... 199

6 ... Business Logic Service Transactions ... 201

6.1 ... Creating a Transaction ... 201

6.2 ... Logic, Tracing, and Miscellaneous Functions ... 209

6.3 ... Working with XML ... 229

6.4 ... Connecting to Enterprise Systems ... 259

6.5 ... Managing Plant Data ... 290

6.6 ... Charts, Animated Objects, and SQC Analysis ... 300

6.7 ... Web, Email, and File Handling ... 306

6.8 ... Executing BLS Transactions ... 321

6.9 ... Schedulers ... 324

6.10 ... Transaction Manager ... 327

6.11 ... Summary ... 328

7 ... Visualization Services ... 329

7.1 ... i5 Display Templates ... 329

7.2 ... Web Report Development in SAP MII ... 382

7.3 ... Self-Service Composition Environment ... 403

7.4 ... Navigation Services ... 408

7.5 ... Summary ... 411

8 ... Plant Information Catalog ... 413

8.1 ... Configuring the PIC Category and Property Set ... 414

8.2 ... Plant Information Maintenance ... 426

8.3 ... Linking to an SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA Source ... 440

8.4 ... Linking to the Shop Floor System ... 447

8.5 ... Change Management ... 449

8.6 ... Accessing PIC through Web Service ... 454

8.7 ... Catalog Query ... 466

8.8 ... Using PIC for Plant Data Collection ... 468

8.9 ... User Authorization in Catalog Services ... 469

8.10 ... Summary ... 473

9 ... Energy Monitoring and Analysis ... 475

9.1 ... Production Events ... 475

9.2 ... Key Performance Indicators ... 481

9.3 ... Energy Tariff ... 495

9.4 ... Configuring Shift Patterns ... 497

9.5 ... Configuring Plant Information Catalog ... 499

9.6 ... PIC Analysis Query Report ... 501

9.7 ... Summary ... 504

10 ... Overall Equipment Effectiveness ... 505

10.1 ... SAP OEE Management Overview ... 506

10.2 ... Post-Installation Configuration of SAP OEE Management ... 513

10.3 ... ERP Shop Floor Integration for Worker UI ... 561

10.4 ... General Configuration ... 572

10.5 ... Activity Configuration ... 583

10.6 ... Dashboard Configuration ... 590

10.7 ... Modify Order Status Description ... 594

10.8 ... Data Upload ... 596

10.9 ... Scheduled Downtime Maintenance ... 598

10.10 ... Order Dispatch ... 599

10.11 ... Display SAP S/4HANA Master Data ... 600

10.12 ... Audit Log ... 601

10.13 ... SAP OEE Management Dashboard ... 602

10.14 ... Application Launchpad ... 623

10.15 ... Custom Enhancements ... 629

10.16 ... Reporting and Analytics ... 637

10.17 ... Summary ... 642

A ... Advanced Techniques for SAP MII Composite Application Development ... 643

A.1 ... Creating and Deploying a Custom Action Block ... 643

A.2 ... Using XPath Expressions in BLS Transactions ... 651

A.3 ... Creating Dynamic Queries Using JavaScript ... 655

A.4 ... Executing a BAPI/RFC with a Table as an Input Parameter ... 657

A.5 ... Using Virtual Servers for Communication among SAP MII Servers ... 662

A.6 ... Autobind and Session Variables in SAP MII ... 664

A.7 ... Dynamic Data Exchange among SAP MII Web Pages ... 668

A.8 ... Implementing Role-Based Access to SAP MII Web Pages ... 673

A.9 ... SAP MII Services: The Power behind SAP MII ... 674

A.10 ... Summary ... 688

B ... The Authors ... 689

... Index ... 691