TABLE OF CONTENTS This chapter covers the entire recipe part of 88.01 Section 5, Batch Control Concepts.
Recipes are the central feature of batch control. The equipment is designed to implement the recipes. Each recipe describes all that needs to be known in order to make a product. If a business loses its equipment in some disaster, that equipment can be rebuilt. If a business loses its recipes, it will have to start over and redevelop each one of them again, which could cause the business to lose its customers. Recipes in general were covered in Chapter 5 of this book.
There are four types of recipe entities. They differ in their use and the amount of detail they contain, with the most detail in the lowest level. Each recipe contains five types of information. Some recipes need to be distributed to locations remote from where the recipe was generated. You will learn all about this and more if you press on.
A recipe entity contains, at a minimum, enough information to make a product. SP88 decided that four types were enough to make recipe models. They cover the distribution needs of the entities in the Physical Model. The four types are shown in Figure 8-1, which looks like Figure 8 in 88.01.
The symbols on the drawing illustrate the following relationships. A General recipe contains the processing information that will make one product at any location in the enterprise, but the information can...
