Inspection Rounds in Work Manager 6.0

[steve_campbell_nz]

Hi all,

We've setup Work Manager 6.0 running on SMP2.3.  One of the functions that I'd like to get working is inspection rounds.

We have

• Configued the standard order type PM01 to be an inspection rounds order in the work order MDO filter INSP_ORDER_TYPE.
• Assigned a measurement point PRT to the order operation.
• Added an Equipment number to the order operation.

In work manager I am able to access the PRT screen from the Work Order Detail PRT link.  In that screen I can see the buttons for Tools, Inspection Types, Measuring Points, and Attachments.  In all my testing I've never seen a Measurement Point under the Measurement Point selection.

When I've checked the data structure in the Agentry Test Environment the measurement point entries come up in the PRT section under the Operation section.  They are missing any value in the RecordID field.  Other PRT types have this information filled and I assume that it provides the link to the measurement point information downloaded for the functional location and equipment data structures under the operation structure.

Inspection Rounds are working fine in the back end using standard confirmation transaction iw42.

Any suggestions?

thank you

Steve.

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[syam_yalamati · Accepted solution]

Hi Steve,

   Make sure you activated Business function Set /SMERP/EHP5_EAM_BUS_FUNC delivered as part of the Work Manager 6.0. To activate this switch framework goto transaction SFW5 and serach for Business function Set '/SMERP/EHP5_EAM_BUS_FUNC' under ENTERPRISE_BUSINESS_FUNCTIONS and activate switch. Hope this will resolve your problem.

Regards

Syam

[steve_campbell_nz · Accepted solution]

Hi Syam,

Thank you for the advice. In the post  the text says that you should avtive that business function set when you are using linear asset management and in the switch framework it has linear assets LOG_EAM_LINEAR_1 as a dependency.  We don't want to active Linear Assets.

Do you know whether the inspection rounds functionality with respect to measurement point PRTs is only bundled with the linear assets enhancements?

regards

Steve.

[syam_yalamati · Accepted solution]

Currently all the new features which are introduced from EHP5 and above are bundled under this switch. May be coming releases will seperate these features into different switches, but for now the only option you have is to activate LINEAR switch.

[steve_campbell_nz · Accepted solution]

Thank you Syam,

We have activated 'LOG_EAM_LINEAR_1' and '/SMERP/EHP5_EAM_BUS_FUNC' and we now get inspection round measurement points coming through to Work Manager.

Separate switches for the functions in future releases is a solid idea.  Any customer who is not running linear assets will have to debate with their account manager if the want to use inspection rounds.  Linear generally attracts an additional license cost.

Back to Inspection Rounds.  The measurement points come through only if the functional location or equipment record is explicitly specified on the operation.  In the ECC functionality any measurement point can be specified as long as it is in the hierarchy beneath the functional location/equipment referenced on the operation.  I assume that work manager limits this to minimise data sent to the device. 

Does the parameter OBJECT_HIER_LEVEL'' on the 'WORKORDER_GENERIC' MDO have any impact on the collection of Functional Location and Equipment data at the operation level.  We are debugging and initially find a section of code relating to BDS documents.  Do you know the scope of the parameter?  Changing it's value seems to have no impact on the inclusion/exclusion of measurement points.  Debugging continues.....

Ideally the get work order routine would be able to identify the required Functional Location and Equipment records from the measurement point PRTs themselves, that way only push the required records to the device, rather than a full hierarchy (assuming that full hierarchy was an option).  As it stands it looks like we'd need to implement a BADI to restrict the assignment of measurement point PRTs in ECC to only measurement points attached to the functional location and equipment record explicitly referenced on the operation.  If that wasn't done then you could add measurement PRTs in ECC that you couldn't process in Work Manager.

Thank you again for your assistance.

Steve.

[syam_yalamati · Accepted solution]

Hi Steve,

    Thanks for your valuable inputs, we will try to incorporate these in our next product releases. See my answers below for your questions:

Q) The measurement points come through only if the functional location or equipment record is explicitly specified on the operation?

A) Yes, to minimize the data volume, we only consider technical objects referenced on the operation for the initial feature release. We will try to provide solution for this in our next release.

Q) Does the parameter OBJECT_HIER_LEVEL'' on the 'WORKORDER_GENERIC' MDO have any impact on the collection of Functional Location and Equipment data at the operation level?

A) No, This hierarchy collection is only for displaying technical objects in hierarchicall sequence on the client. This list only includes technical objects referenced in the work orders and operations. Also BDS flag has no impact as it is related attachments feature.

Regards

Syam

[steve_campbell_nz · Accepted solution]

Thank you very much for the insight.  We've activated the business functions and Inspection Rounds have sprung to life.

[Former Member]

Hi

I have set up Inspection rounds in our sandbox system and it seems to work OK ,except for one thing.

In PM measurement points for equipment or FL, we can define measurement points and see them come out at the other end, in Work order confirmation, but can only enter data for quantitive measurement points , we are not able to enter data for qualitive measurement points.

In measurement point definition, you can use a characteristic for quantitive values (such as temperature, pressure etc, range 0-nnn )or a catalogue code for qualitive values( PASS, FAIL, GOOD,BAD).

but you cant enter the qualitive values(PASS, FAIL, GOOD,BAD) in the confirmation process, unless I have missed something in config or setup.

Any ideas/help/confirm the issue/workaround

Martin

[bill_froelich]

Martin,

Please open a new Discussion for your new question.  The original question was already answered.  This will get you more visibility to your question and allow you to mark it answered so others will be able to benefit as well.

--Bill

[syam_yalamati]

The following SAP note was released to remove this dependency so that customers don't have to activate the Business function  '/SMERP/EHP5_EAM_BUS_FUNC' which has further dependency on LAM switch  'LOG_EAM_LINEAR_1' for Inspection Rounds feature in SAP Work Manager mobile application.

2034348 - Remove dependency for Inspection Rounds feature from
switch framework /SMERP/EHP5_EAM_BUS_...

Regards

Syam

[steve_campbell_nz]

Thank you Syam,

That makes licensing a lot clearer.

regards

Steve.

[i834235]

Steve,

Can you debug SAP class handler for Work Order fetch to check if PRT's related data is pulled for  the  Work Order you have assigned PRT's.  That way you can identify  where the problems exists.

if  PRT data  is not returned from  in SAP  then you know whether it is an SAP issue or  Java/Agentry layer issue.

One more question are you  trying to test base product  WM 6.0 functionality or have you done enhancement  to WM 6.0 in anyway ?

Let me know what you find out.

Thanks

Manju.

[steve_campbell_nz]

HI Manju,

We have Work Manager 6.0 with LAM and Inspection Rounds instatlled without any modifications.

The image below shows the data entry that we are getting in the operation stucture of the work order.

We've looked at the order handler and couldn't see a measurement point data pickup for the PRT measurement point.

Following on from Syam's advice to activate '/SMERP/EHP5_EAM_BUS_FUNC' and the dependency on linear assets.  Do you know whether inspection rounds functionality is bundled up with linear assets?  Can (PRT based) inspection rounds work without activating linear in the backend?

thank you

Steve.