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Recipe generation - Unit Procedure - Linking formula and Unit Binding

Any top tips to link formula to unit bindings during recipe creation?

When loading the recipe (UP) the operator has to select the unit from "Unit Bindings" and then the appropriate formula from "Formula Configuration". 

On occasion these settings are entered in error and a unit is loaded the wrong formula. (Leads to a lot of headaches).

We have more than one formula per UP. Using the feature of Recipe / Properties / formula enforcing is not going to cut it.

Any suggestions how units can be linked to formula? (or vice versa)

E.g. After the operator selects the unit, a certain formula is preselected.

We have tried Unit Selection Policies and so far we are not finding the solution.

• Formula
• up
• linking
• units

MichaelP

• 20 Feb 2018 1:28 PM
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• chip.burge

  

  • 20 Feb 2018 1:55 PM

  A low tech solution we've implemented before would be to add a formula parameter for the tag of the unit which a particular formula is linked to. You'd have to insert a phase before anything else in the recipe happens to check this formula parameter against #THISUNIT#'s tag. From there either advise the operator to abort the batch and reload on the proper unit or automatically abort the batch.
  
  Maybe someone else out there has a high tech solution?

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• Michael Moody

  

  • 20 Feb 2018 2:33 PM

  In reply to chip.burge:

  I've used similar approaches to Chip's recommendation in the past and it worked well. There was a slight delay to end the UP and rebook correctly. This normally only cost a few minutes.
  
  We also began to use the Campaign Manager to preconfigure typical products for units. The operator could release a preconfigured batch vs. manually booking, binding, and selecting recipe.

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