SAP DM - Discrete Orders - Sampling Requirements (different across process steps)

[ppilvines1]

Hello, we are working on some discrete production with two different cases and wanted to see how the community has approached these in their sites and implementations in SAP Digital Manufacturing.

We've been exploring splitting and merging SFC's through production process to automate these activities. Our goal is to ensure sampling requirements for our data collections in the recipe are meet at the right cadence and ensuring a clean user interface (with splitting we've been worried about having hundreds of SFC's in the Work Center POD or Operation Activity POD -- process lots are something we've been exploring for this).

Would love to get advice/suggestions from the community on approaches! Thanks in advance!

Scenario A - single machine with different zones 

Step 1	Check every 2500	Zone 2
Step 2	Check every 5000	Zone 2
Step 3	Check every 7500	Zone 3
Step 4	Varies based on qty per box	Packaging

Scenario B - three machines different zones and physical WIP between locations/processes

Step 1	Check every 2500	Machine 1
Step 2	Check every 5000	Machine 2
Step 3	Check every 7500	Machine 3

[ppilvines1 · Accepted solution]

@ManoelCosta - wondering if you have any expertise or ideas on this requirement implementing a routing in SAP DM.

[ManoelCosta · Accepted solution]

Hi @ppilvines1, this is not enough input to clearly understand your production process/flow, requirements, constraints and the level of shop floor automation and integration that you have available, if any. I can probably think of several ways to implement a sampling logic, from really simple to really complex, once again depending on your specific requirements. In general, you should be able to model data collections to reflect the different steps required and use Automatic Triggers to catch manual by workers and/or automatic by machines production events and trigger a PPD to check actual quantity versus sample rate for that specific manufacturing context, to either collect data automatically if possible, trigger an alert so workers can do it manually, or do something to block the SFC like place a hold, disposition or perhaps start a special operation to enforce the data collection before the SFC can proceed, if it´s not a continuous process, for example. Hope it helps somehow. Br, Manoel

[ManoelCosta · Accepted solution]

Check this blog post https://community.sap.com/t5/supply-chain-management-blogs-by-sap/random-inspection-using-special-op... about Random Inspections using Special Operations, where in the comment section we briefly discussed sampling.