SAP Manufacturing Days - Norbert Ruppik Loh Services

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SAP Shop Floor Dispatcher and Monitoring (SFD&M)First Operational Experience from

Rittal GmbH

Norbert Ruppik

Loh Services GmbH

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Agenda

1. Introduction Rittal

2. Shop Floor Dispatcher & Monitor

3. Implementation strategy

4. Additional features – Customer specificadjustment

5. Comparison previous - after

6. Review ramp up phase / technical aspects


Introduction Rittal


Introduction Rittal

Rittal. Power and Vision!

� Founded in 1961

� Worldwide leading provider for enclosures,

power supply, climatisation, IT infrastructure including software and service

Rittal – The System

� Perfectly configured system platform

� Combines innovative products, trendsetting engineering solutions and

global service for various requirements

� Products for most different industries – from manufacturing systems

construction to automotive industry and information technology

� about 10.000 employees

� www.rittal.de


Introduction production plant Rittal Hof

Plant Hof in numbers

� production space: ca. 17.000 m²

� employees: ca. 370

High portion of configured products

� percentage specials / standards: 90 % / 10 %

� Customer specific production

� Higher effort in production control than in production of standards


Shop Floor Dispatcher & Monitor




Modern front-End

� User friendly visualization of ERP data

� simple intuitive use

� All relevant data for production at first look

� No separate data storage – live connection to ERP

� Vertical integration (shop floor) – up to now no support on shop floor level

No planning tool

� Adjustment of end date in SFD&M does not change manufacturing end date

in ERP

Little implementation effort

� Customizing in ERP (familiar)

� No training effort for developpers



Implementation strategy


Implementation of SFD&M in combination with shop floor m anagement

project

� Decentral management – on the shopfloor

� Visualization – KPI‘s, problems, actions

� Standardization – prevention of repetetive errors

� Analysis of causes / solution of problems

� Communication

Implementation strategy


Additional features

Customer specific adjustments


Additional features – customer specific adjustment

Add on‘s

� Comment field

� Order Confirmation

� Display of configuration text

� Visualization of priority orders



Editible comment field

� Order related comment field from ERP contains advices

from production control (Dispatching and planning)

� With problems: communication with production control

(planning) and next shift


Order confirmation

� Execution of standard transaction

to confirm production



Display of configuration text

� Contains order specific advices for production



Visualization of priority orders

� Highlighting of priority orders in orange



Communication from shift to shift

� Comment field

� Order progress bar



Comparison previous - after



Previous

� Order list „work to list“ in paper version

� With changes, replacement of paper lists in production

necessary



After

� Shop floor Dispatcher & Monitor

� Adjustments of production plan are shown real time connected




Review ramp phase /

technical aspects


Developping phase

� Initiative of DSAG-AK production

� Development with 4 customers within 1 ½ years

Ramp up phase

� Implementation together with developpers of SAP

� „Direct line“ to developpers with short response time

Realisation of important customer requirements

� Development of BADI by SAP to execute confirmation of mile stones

through step confirmation – required by several customers

Review ramp up phase / technical aspects


Technical aspects

� Separate Windows program – no SAP-GUI

� Customizing of SFD with typical SAP standard methods

� Back end: usual base installation via Marketplace download

– like SAP Add on

� Front-End: usual Windows installation (SETUP.EXE)

� BADIs, User-Exits with typical delivered SAP standard

� Data structures taken from ERP

� Development of add ons either in ABAP or HTML/Javascript

Review ramp up phase / technical aspects


Summary


Take Home Messages

� SFD&M provides a simple intuitive user interface

� All production data at first look

� Replacement of „Work to lists“

� Fast information of production control / customer

� Rather easy customizing / adjustment

Summary


I‘m happy to answer your questions

Questions

Technology

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