Creating A New Formula Category; Specifying The Formula Category Properties - Siemens SIMATIC BATCH Operating Manual

BATCH Control Center
9.5 Recipes
Electronic signatures
Operator actions relating to recipes and recipe elements can be signed. You configure
electronic signatures in the "ESIG" tab.
See also section: Specifying electronic signatures (Page 375)
Additional information
Overview of the properties of master recipes (Page 577)
9.5.4.5

Creating a new formula category

Follow these steps in BatchCC
1. Select the "Formulas" folder.
2. Select the menu item Edit > New.
3. Enter the name of the new formula category in the dialog displayed and confirm with OK.
Result: The new formula category is inserted as the following object.
With the formula category, you can now create a class of formulas with the same raw material
and production data structure.
Additional editing
You can now continue to edit the formulas as follows:
● Specifying the properties of the formula category (Page 304)
● Creating a new external formula (Page 305)
9.5.4.6

Specifying the formula category properties

Proceed as follows in the BatchCC
1. Select the formula category in the "Formulas" folder or in one of its subfolders.
2. Select the menu command Edit > Properties.
Result: The dialog box "Properties of <category name>" is displayed. In the tab dialogs,
the structure of the "Material and production data (formula) (Page 109)" can be specially
created for this formula category (external formula).
3. Enter the structure of the formula category consisting of the parameter names, data type
(only for process parameters) and physical unit and confirm with OK.
Result: With the formula category, you can now create formulas with the same raw material
and production data structure by creating new formulas under this formula category in the tree.
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