When you are ready to create recipes, you can create and download them with the Recipe Package. The Recipe Package consists of the following programs:
- Recipe Builder
- Recipe system tasks:
- Recipe Upload program
- Recipe Download program
The Recipe Builder
The Recipe Builder is the heart of the Recipe Package. This program provides industry-standard features for creating, modifying, deleting, uploading, and downloading recipes. But the Recipe Builder also provides other powerful features that enable you to:
- Add formulas to recipes.
- Recalculate formulas automatically.
- Override formulas within specified limits.
- Scale the batch size.
- Assign tag groups to recipes.
- Keep an audit trail of recipe activity.
Using Formulas
These features provide you with flexibility when creating recipes. For example, adding formulas to recipes allows you to represent a block value as a mathematical expression or in relation to another block value. This feature enables you to create recipes in terms natural for your industry, thereby making the recipes understandable by any process engineer and enabling you to develop recipes faster.
Recalculating Formulas
When you enter or change a formula, the Recipe Builder automatically recalculates its value. This feature enables you to experiment with possible recipe values by making "on-the-fly" changes.
Overriding Formulas
To help you respond to changing process conditions, you can override a formula by entering a process value. This value is used in place of the formula until the override value is cleared.
Scaling the Batch Size
In addition, the Recipe Builder enables you to dynamically and uniformly scale the batch size. When scaling the batch size, the Recipe Builder preserves the relative proportions among the process values being scaled. Scaling the batch size is useful when you want to continually vary production amounts.
Using Tag Groups
Using the Recipe Builder, you can also assign tag groups to a recipe. With this feature, you can create one recipe that can address many different areas of your process. If a different tag group is needed for a recipe, you can assign that tag group in place of the currently assigned one. By re-using the same recipe with multiple tag groups, you gain flexibility and save time and disk space that would be otherwise needed for multiple recipes.
Keeping an Audit Trail
The Recipe Builder also provides a flexible method for keeping an audit trail. Using this feature, you can track what activity has occurred, when the activity occurred, and who initiated the activity. You can also track activity of individual tagnames. The Recipe Builder sends this information to the available alarm destinations.
Cutting and Pasting Data
In addition, you can cut and paste data to and from a third-party spreadsheet, such as Microsoft® Excel™. This feature provides the convenience of enabling you to create recipes with a program you already know. When you are ready to download a recipe, this feature also allows you to quickly cut and paste the recipe into the Recipe Builder.
