800xA Batch Management is a comprehensive recipe management, batch and procedural control software package that provides improved regulatory compliance, safety, and security. It provides the tools necessary to support the market's changing focus from traditional supervisory batch management to production management by supporting integrated production historian and production schedule interface for batch as well as procedural control applications in continuous and discrete processes.
800xA Batch Management provides manufacturers the agility, speed, and control to respond to increasing production demands while reducing lifecycle costs and production downtime to enhance performance and overall competitiveness in the marketplace.
800xA Batch Management also provides the evolution path for ABB's traditional batch systems such as ChemFlex, InfiBatch, Batch300, SymBatch, and SattBatch.
800xA Batch Management fulfills five primary functions:
Product Definition Management: a graphically based environment for the creation and management of version controlled, batch master recipe procedures and re-usable subordinate procedure levels.
Production Execution Management: simultaneous execution of many control recipes in parallel can be scheduled to proceed in an automatic, semi-automatic, or manual operating mode. An integrated operator interface provides runtime displays without any additional configuration effort.
Production Resource Management: configuration of all units, shared-use equipment objects, and exclusive-use equipment objects is integrated within the common object model of the 800xA system. Network, multi-path and single path production routings are easily specified.
Production Data Collection: events and alarms from the batch manager for each individual batch are automatically consolidated with the controller generated alarms and events.
Production Dispatching: standard overview display for presentation of the currently executing batches and those that are scheduled to run. In addition to the monitoring capabilities, standard dialogs enable the user to add new batches, modify details of scheduled batches, or navigate to detailed monitoring displays for currently executing batches.