Patent ID: 6629003
Filing Date: 2003-09-30
Classification: G05B,Y02P,Y10S

Abstract:
A method for operating a batch processing machine which produces a desired product, comprising the steps of:providing a computer comprising a manual process display illustrating the batch processing machine and a plurality of control element operating parameters visually associated with different parts of the machine, each operating parameter having an associate set point representing a desired operating value for the respective operating parameter; using the manual process display, an operator experiments with at least one step of a multi-step recipe for batch processing of the desired product; upon completion of experimentation for said at least one step, the operator activates a snap shot function on the manual process display so that the computer then automatically stores a snap shot of an icon associated with each control element operating parameter and the associated set point existing at the time of the snap shot; with a recipe editing display, editing the recipe for said batch processing of the desired product, each step of the recipe being represented by one or more icons with associated set points for the control element operating parameter associated with each icon, and for at least one of the steps of the recipe, retrieving the stored snap shot by use of the editing recipe display so as to automatically display for that step the stored one or more icons with associated stored set points for the one or more associated control element operating parameters; and by using the recipe created by the snap shot retrieval, automatically processing the batch of the desired product.