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The "Material management" tab consists of the following areas:
● Archive names
This area shows the pre-assigned user archives in which the material management data
are saved.
The names of the user archives are pre-assigned and cannot be edited.
● Display of each first alarm logging ID for
– Material messages
– Material error messages
– Material lot messages
– Material lot error messages
● Assign IDs automatically
You can use these check boxes to specify whether the IDs for materials or material lots are
assigned manually or automatically when new data records are created.
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Area
Class archive
Type archive
Material attribute archive
Material archive
Material lot archive
Material lot attribute archive FB_MATLOTATTRIB
Material status archive
Note
For information on importing APF messages in Alarm Logging, refer to "Advanced
Process Functions (APF) Installation and Configuration".
User archive
FB_MATCLASS
FB_MATTYPE
FB_MATATTRIB
FB_MATERIAL
FB_MATERIAL_LOT
FB_MAT_STATUS
APF Engineering Tool
4.4 "Settings" dialog
Explanation
Definition of the material classes
Definition of the material types
Definition of the material attributes
Archiving of the materials and their values
for the attributes
Archiving of the material lots
Definition of the material lot attributes
Definition of the material status texts
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