Introduction

Setup Specs manages setup parameters for the production – also known as recipe management.

The user can maintain specific parameters for the machines for each product which are used for clear instructions on how a product needs to be created or tested.

Main features

Administration
- Maintain Product Hierarchy (Area, Family, Product, Product-Variant)

Maintain Setup Parameters for Process Experts
- Maintain parameters for location specific sets, application specific sets and processes
- Linkage of existing parameters to multiple products
- Support of simple parameters and arrays
- Support of validation of parameters
- Logging of versions/history
- Comparison of versions

Maintenance of Releases for Planners
- Maintain variants for products
- Maintain release status for variants
- Maintain release status for lines
- Create tickets to assign change activities to solution groups

Import / Export - Export of products and setup parameters in JSON and DAT format
- Import of setup parameters

Migration - Migration of Setup Control to Setup Specs

Target audience

This documentation is used for operations and API reference of Setup Specs. It points out the technical structure of Setup Specs, its runtime environment, best practices and hints for deployment scenarios.