This course provides a short introduction to the concepts, potentials, and possibilities associated with the Design Production Processes application, but it does not offer a detailed walk-through for designing a production process and related objects. For more detailed information on this, see the following SAP training course: DM1040 - Extensibility/Customizing in SAP Digital Manufacturing, where production process design, administration, monitoring, and triggering are described in detail. For production process design creation specific to shop floor integration, see the following lessons in this unit.
You can use the Design Production Processes application to model production processes (automation sequences) that automate production in SAP Digital Manufacturing. This can be done with or without shop floor integration. A production process design can consist of one or more production processes.
The Design Production Processes application can be used to define automation sequences that can call public APIs from SAP Digital Manufacturing, call APIs from third-party systems, implement script logic, and read and write indicators for shop floor integration. It is a flexible tool that can be used to model any kind of automation related to SAP Digital Manufacturing.
There is a trigger framework in SAP Digital Manufacturing (the Manage Automatic Triggers application) that can trigger production processes based on different business events, changes of indicators, certain time intervals, or the actions of the production operator in SAP Digital Manufacturing. Additionally, SAP Digital Manufacturing provides administration and monitoring functionalities.
When it comes to shop floor integration, the Design Production Processes application allows you to read and write data from previously created indicators. As the indicators are connected to the machines, this enables data exchange from SAP Digital Manufacturing to the shop floor layer. For detailed information on this, see the following lesson.
