Material Types - Siemens SIMATIC PCS 7 System Manual

5.3

Material types

You can assign up to ten material types to each material class. The material types are saved
in the "FB_MATTYPE_XXX" user archives.
The material types are displayed in a selection list in the process picture.
Creating material types
To create a material type, follow these steps:
1. Open the material management in the navigation area of the APF engineering tool.
2. Select the "Material types" group.
All defined material types are displayed in the working area.
3. Click in the last row of the table in the working area and specify the following properties:
4. Click the "Save" button.
The material type is created.
Advanced Process Functions Engineering Manual
System Manual, 07/2016, A5E38719921-AA
Column
Name
TXTLIB
Name of the material type
ID for multilingual management in the text library (non-editable; assigned
automatically)
Material management
5.3 Material types
Explanation
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