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The Right Recipe for Single Stream Batch Management

Schneider Electric’s Recipe Manager Plus supports electronic signatures, audit trails and reports to safeguard quality and reduce cost of regulatory compliance.

Recipe template for Recipe Manager Plus. Source: Schneider Electric
Recipe template for Recipe Manager Plus. Source: Schneider Electric

When it comes to effectively managing a batch recipe, there’s no such thing as having too many cooks in the industrial kitchen.

Whether it is a food and beverage, pharmaceutical or chemical company, each department within the organization needs to understand the dynamics of every recipe in order to meet specific needs. From finance (understanding costs) to purchasing (managing materials) to quality control (meeting specifications) to maintenance (taking care of equipment), and, of course, production (making the product), everyone must have access to the basics of the batch.

To that end, batch management is a critical application for managing orders and the execution of recipes across plant floor equipment when variations in the material usage and settings change between products. And full-blown batch management products, like Schneider Electric’s Wonderware’s InBatch software, are designed to manage flexible batching processes—from recipe modeling to simulation to batch scheduling and reliable execution with sophisticated equipment and material management..

Tied directly into the control architecture to interact with the process, batch management systems are effective for multi stream and multi product plants. It can be overkill, however, in a single stream production environment or when formula management is all an organization needs.

“Many production processes do not require large flexibility, particularly when it comes to packaging,” said Michael Schwarz, MOM & EMI marketing manager for Wonderware Software global solutions. “Food and beverage and life sciences customers want recipe management systems to safeguard consistent quality and reduce cost of regulatory compliance without the overhead of sophisticated batch management.”

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