Batch Management & Control
Flexible and scaleable batch systems
A Full Spectrum of Batch SolutionsRockwell Automation provides a complete batch automation environment: integration of smart instruments and devices, equipment arbitration to manage effective assignment of batches to process equipment and material transfer across a facility, production history, material tracking and reporting.
Rockwell Automation addresses scaleability and flexibility to meet the broadest suite of batch applications, all built upon the ISA-S88 standard and integrated within the architecture.
- Fixed procedure with fixed formula
- Multiple products with same procedure
- Multiple products with multiple procedures
- Multiple units with equipment arbitration
The availability of smaller, yet fully-functioned, systems means greater productivity and lower cost of ownership. Our system helps lower Total Cost of Ownership by reducing engineering and maintenance cost, particularly when compared to costs of traditional DCS batch solutions.
Batch Management
Our system allows you to develop batch control strategies by supporting flexible production capability, equipment independent recipes and batch-independent control.
- Create and manage recipes
- Integrate manual procedure steps with automated steps, including required operator confirmations and verifications
- Reduce the hours needed for validating and commissioning
- Configure physical and procedural models
- Create and manage product campaigns, consisting of multiple batches
- Integrate with a wide variety of complementary software applications
- Collect detailed electronic batch data to generate detailed reports for compliance or process improvement
- Integrate and exchange batch and recipe information with corporate information systems
- Simulate your entire batch process
- Supports redundant storage
Operator Access
The interface to batch production is through standard functions in the operator workstation. With batch visualisation functions, you can initiate recipes, control actions and access batch server functions and all other batch information.
