Production Process Designer
Easily visualize and control production processes
The Production Process Designer in SAP Digital Manufacturing
The Production Process Designer helps you clearly model your manufacturing processes and transparently map your shop floor.
It defines how machines, rules, actions and workflows interact to efficiently control the execution of your production processes.
Your benefits at a glance
Visual process modeling
Easily create and optimize production processes with a visual designer.
Focus on what matters
Concentrate on processes and business logic – not on programming details.
Centralized configuration management
Manage all settings in one place instead of configuring each piece of equipment individually.
Version management
Keep track of different versions of your process configurations.
Flexible when changes are needed
Quickly adapt your configurations to new requirements or environments.
What it could look like: Automating production execution
With the Production Process Designer, you can model and automate complete manufacturing workflows as cloud processes. This means that certain activities are triggered automatically or specifically enforced on the shop floor – without manual intermediate steps.
Example process flow:
Start of production (trigger)
A production process is started, e.g. for a specific resource
Automatically create/start SFC
Creation of a production control number (Start_SFCs)
Collect data on the shop floor
Automatic or mandatory confirmation of manufacturing data (Measure)
Execute measurement and data collection services
The system captures relevant production data via defined services (Log_DC)
Production completion
The manufacturing order is completed automatically (Complete_SFCs)
This example illustrates how the Production Process Designer automates complete manufacturing workflows, links individual production steps in a system-controlled way, and captures data directly from the shop floor.
