Simultaneous Branch (Insert Menu) - Siemens SIMATIC BATCH Operating Manual

3. Select the "Heating" recipe phase as the target object in the properties dialog and "Stop"
as the command.
4. Transition 6 contains the following status query. Has the "heating" recipe stopped? The
effect is that the follow-up command "Restart" is executed only when the target object shows
this status.
5. Insert a command step after transition 6 in the simultaneous branch.
6. Select the "Heating" recipe phase as the target object in the properties dialog and "Restart"
as the command.
7. Save your recipe and release it.
Result
A prompt is issued in transition 13 in process mode asking if the "heating" recipe phase is
running. Then the "heating" recipe phase is stopped with command step 3. The "heating" recipe
phase does not go immediately to "Stop"; it goes through its "stopping" transition state. A
prompt is issued in transition 6 asking if the "heating" recipe phase has stopped. If it has, the
"Restart" command is transferred by command step 4 to the "heating" recipe phase. This resets
the "heating" recipe phase and starts it again.
10.4.5.7

Simultaneous branch (Insert menu)

Overview
In the BATCH Recipe Editor, this function inserts an AND divergence. The steps and transitions
in the simultaneous branches are executed at the same time. Control is passed to the
successor transition or successor step only when the last steps and transitions of the
simultaneous branches have been executed or are satisfied.
With simultaneous branches, the branches are processed only when all branches can be
processed. This ensures, for example, that it is only possible to "heat" when the "agitator" is
active.
Note
If two equipment phases of the same unit are installed in one simultaneous branch and one
of the two equipment phases is in automatic mode and the other in manual, during processing,
the unit will be occupied by the equipment phase in automatic mode.
At this point, execution of the simultaneous branch stops. Even the equipment phase in the
automatic mode, that is occupying the unit is not processed.
Selection
Clicking the double line selects the entire simultaneous branch. If you click one of the lines
that join the double lines from within the simultaneous branch, you select a sequence.
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