Getting Started with DPM > Initial DPM Administration Activities
Initial DPM Administration Activities
After your data has been imported and before making DPM available to users, an administrator must complete the following activities in Administration:
1. Ensure that your materials are present as expected. You can create new materials as needed. For more information, see Material Configuration.
2. Ensure that reason trees are assigned to your equipment and materials as expected. You can create new reason trees and update assignments as needed. For more information, see Reason Trees.
3. Ensure that calendars are assigned to your equipment as expected. You can create new calendars, including creating new shifts and shift schedules, update the shifts and shift schedules for your existing calendars, and update the equipment assignments as needed. For more information, see Shifts and Calendars.
4. Ensure that the production block duration and OEE thresholds are set appropriately for each site in your equipment list. For more information, see Site Configuration Tab.
5. Ensure that materials are added to the work centers that produce them, and that the material settings are appropriate for each work center. For more information, see Material Settings Tab.
6. If you are setting up data automation, ensure that the machine codes for each pacemaker work unit are mapped to the appropriate reason codes. For more information, see Machine Code Settings Tab.
7. Optionally create job orders. For more information, see Job Orders.
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If multiple enterprises were imported during data import, ensure that the name of the correct enterprise is configured. Only one enterprise can be configured, and only data for the configured enterprise is available in Production Dashboard and throughout DPM.
To configure the enterprise, complete the following steps in ThingWorx Composer:
1. Navigate to the PTC.MfgModelImpl.Manager Thing and click Edit.
2. Under Configuration, scroll to the NetworkConfiguration configuration table and click Edit icon. in the table row.
3. In the edit window, enter the Thing name of the network entity for the enterprise in the network field. This is the Thing name that was specified for the enterprise when the data was imported.
Do not change the value of the id field.
4. Click Set to close the edit window.
5. Click Save to save the configuration changes.
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