Improve operational performance and flexibility while reducing machine setup and changeover time.

Ensure quality and regulatory compliance with consistent batch-to-batch production results and automatic record keeping.

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 add the ability to create procedures defining the order of equipment or manual capabilities execution.

• A recipe contains a well-defined procedure and maps product specific formula values to capability parameters for manufacturing a specific product or product variation.
• An operator can select and assign a recipe to appropriate equipment to start, monitor, and control a recipe including manual data entry and activity execution acknowledgment.
• Parameter values can be adjusted within the defined limits, either before the recipe starts or even just before a capability is executed.