Operational Visibility with SAP MII SSCE

[RajeevKansal]

SAP MII is a well know product to provide integration and intelligence capabilities to integrate disparate system in shop floor and also to create plant performance management dashboard for different roles involved in the company. SAP MII is a manufacturing platform which provided modelling capabilities to retrieving the data, writing business logic, visualization data into different charts/controls, integrating data to any system with different standards. One of the key missing feature in MII was a modeling tool to create the dashboard quickly which can be used for IT developer and also by a business person with minimum training. MII Self Service Composition environment was added as part of MII 15.o release providing a HTML5 based design tool to create plant performance management dashboard by simply dragging and dropping different MII content object and configuring it to your need. the tool has been continuously being evolved in 15.1 release also providing a variety of use cases to cover almost all type of visualization capabilities.

Using SSCE, you could create any type of layout and drag any of the MII content i.e. Query template, design template, MDO, KPI, resource files, PIC and UI elements to create any type of dashboard.

Additionally it provides some of the key features out of box as mentioned below.

1. Authorization control on the dashboard in terms of who can modify and view the dashboard.
2. Out of box compatibility for mobile devices.
3. Ability to do where used of any MII content and PIC to find which dashboard it is being used.
4. Built in Alert Integration. Alerts for the dashboard user will automatically come at right top corner
5. Uniform time and PIC control from the top of the dashboard
6. Header/Footer integration - Provide specific header and footer to provide company branding.
7. Configuration of events for cross cell integration - Update one cell on event from another cell through configuration. no coding.
8. Ability to build custom side panel to integrate any other objects into SSCE visualization
9. Integration of PIC sensor data on a 3D image
   

Here are some nice dashboard created with few clicks using SSCE.

Tag on top of image with/without Area

Dashboard with a form and charts.

KPI as tiles along with tag/query on top of image

SVG on top of Image showing data in the context

Showing Gauge on image and camera feed with EverCam

tag as a Gauge on top of IMage

Tag bound to a component in 3D file

Using SSCE, one can create the dashboard of different needs very quickly. Below find some detail how to documents for each of the functionality available in SSCE which could help in quick realization of your needs.

Topic	Link
MII 15.0 -   Self Service Composition Environment - Overview	http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-55991
MII 15.0 -   Self Service Composition Environment - Integration of MDO/KPI	http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-55996
MII 15.0 -   Self Service Composition Environment - Integration of UI Elements	http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-55995
MII 15.0 -   Self Service Composition Environment - Integration of Display Templates	http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-55994
MII 15.0 -   Self Service Composition Environment - Integration of Query Templates	http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-55993
MII 15.0 -   Self Service Composition Environment - Integration of PIC	http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-55992
MII 15.0 -   Self Service Composition Environment - Integration of Resources/Files	http://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-55885
MII 15.0 -   Self Service Composition Environment - Integration of Web Socket with SAP PCo	https://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-56829
MII 15.0 -   Self Service Composition Environment - Adding images in Dashboards	https://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-62941
MII 15.0 -   Self Service Composition Environment - Additional UI Elements	https://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-62880
MII 15.0 -   Self Service Composition Environment - Convert Query Templates as i5SPC Chart	https://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-62879
MII 15.0 -   Self Service Composition Environment - Copy Content to Clipboard	https://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-62878
MII 15.0 -   Self Service Composition Environment - SSCE Dashboard Locking	https://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-62877
MII 15.0 -   Self Service Composition Environment - Metadata for SSCE Dashboards	https://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-62876
MII 15.0 -   Self Service Composition Environment - PIC Enhancements for SSCE Dashboards	https://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-62875
MII 15.0 -   Remote PCo Notification Management	https://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-62440
MII 15.1 - 3D Image Integration in SSCE	https://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-69624
MII 15.1 - Enhanced features for PIC Tags in SSCE	https://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-69625
MII 15.1 - Configuration and Usability Improvements in SSCE	https://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-69626
MII 15.1 - Input Parameter Enhancements in SSCE	https://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-69621
MII 15.1 - html5 iCommand object in MII	https://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-69622
MII 15.1 - Runtime Parameter Configuration of Display and Query Templates	https://scn.sap.com/docs/DOC-69598
MII 15.1 - Improvements in MII Core	Improvements in MII Core
MII 15.1 - Support of events in SSCE Dashboard	MII15.1 - SSCE Eventing How to Guide
MII 15.1 - Integrate a i5Command into SSCE button	MII15.1 i5Command - How to Guide