Equipment installation/replacement with material consumption

Overview

When consuming a serialized part (a serialized item representing an equipment), it can be installed in equipment structure or replace another equipment (trigger dismantle of an existing part).

To facilitate this process in the mobile application, the technician must specify the value of a special UDF and the equipment:

INSTALLATION SCENARIO - in which the serialized item should be installed
REPLACEMENT SCENARIO - the equipment which should be replaced by this serialized item

Equipment to install serialized material into/equipment to be replaced by the serialized material should be entered in the service order header or object list. If not, it won’t be available to choose it during material consumption.

During processing of a /PACG/ECM_GOODRECIN idoc (after material consumption), the UDF specified in the ‘UDF for action’ field is searched for in the idoc’s UDFDATA segments. The found UDF’s value is then used to determine whether an equipment (represented by serialized material) should be installed (value ‘2’), replaced (value ‘3’) or no action should be carried out (value ‘1’).

Example of equipment installation

1. Create and transfer a special UDF to SAP FSM

/PACG/ECM_UDF_CONF - UDF Configuration, UDF ITEM_EQ_ACTION

/PACG/ECM_TRIG_UDF - UDF Definition

2. Adjust the material screen configuration

3. Fill the ‘UDF Equi Inst/Uninst’ field in transaction /PACG/ECM_ICONF

4. Find a relevant serialized material and consume it. On the material consumption screen specify what action should be carried out and in relation to which equipment (e.g. <install> this serialized item in the <specified equipment>)

5. Examine the inbound /PACG/ECM_GOODRECIN idoc and the test equipments’ structure.

The serialized item which symbolized an equipment was installed in the specified equipment’s structure.

Equipment replacement - resume installation after failed processing

(S4)PACG 200 SP05

The processing of equipment replacement with material consumption has been enhanced with service pack 5 for add-on 200. The process consists of two steps – dismantle the old equipment and install the material’s equipment in the old equipment’s location. Before changes, if the second step failed, it could no longer be repeated by simply reprocessing the idoc. It was because the first step – equipment dismantling - was already saved in the system but in the processing logic it was necessary to successfully perform it again.

Now it is possible to replace (more precisely, install) equipment after failed attempts, due to usage of a posting framework scenario.

A posting framework scenario must be created in transaction /PACG/ECM_FRMIDF. It will be added automatically if the setup program is executed.

The following class should be assigned to it:

The scenario consists of two steps:

· Equipment dismantling – method ‘EQUI_DISMANTLE’

· Equipment installation – method ‘EQUI_INSTAL’

If, for example, equipment could not be installed because its plant was not permitted, the first step will be executed only - dismantling (and material document creation). Then, after changing the equipment’s plant and reprocessing the idoc, the second step will be executed - installation.