Improve operational performance and flexibility while reducing machine setup and changeover time.
Get consistent batch-to-batch production results and improved productivity and quality with access to reports and records of execution history.
Facilitates standardization of recipe management to improve the new product introduction process.
Fast and consistent equipment setup is the key to flexibility and consistent quality for many manufacturing processes. Formula management focuses on managing formulas and equipment for consistent parameter value transfer to control systems.
• Formulas are defined independently of shop floor equipment, allows users to centrally manage product definitions for use in multiple production locations regardless of each location’s automation system.
• Formula download is easy, using a web-based user interface. Operators assign a formula by browsing and selecting from a list of available and approved formula instances for specific equipment. Operators can then review the assigned target values, adjust them within given limits, and download the formula to the connected automation system.
Recipe management and execution adds the ability to create procedures defining the order of equipment execution.
• A recipe contains a well-defined procedure and mapped formula with capability parameters for manufacturing a product.
• It also allows manual data entry and acknowledgment.
• An operator can simply assign a recipe to the appropriate equipment to start, monitor, control, and execute a recipe.
• Parameter values can be adjusted within the defined limits, either before the recipe start or even just before the capability is executed.
