Recipe Administration & the zenon Recipegroup Manager

Recipe Administration in zenon can be configured easily and operated efficiently. Keep the overview on complex sets of recipes with zenon Recipegroup Manager. Ensure maximum security standards in your production processes by zenon’s sophisticated security measures.

Fast Facts

Table form or logically grouped views
Write recipe variables directly from process screens
FDA 21 CFR Part 11 compatible
Status monitoring and progress bar
Quick project configuration
Fully networkable without multiple project configuration
Versioning and status handling
Supported within native Service Engine and Web Visualization Service

Recipe administration with zenon

With zenon recipe administration, it is easy to edit and save any desired number of parameter sets. You can define them for use at the process level at the press of a button. There are two types of recipe management in zenon:

Standard recipes: Recipes collect set values and commands in a predefined list. These recipes can be configured either in Engineering Studio or Service Engine.
Recipegroup Manager: zenon Recipegroup Manager creates and administers a collection of several recipes.

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Standard recipes in zenon

A set of parameters can easily be written at once by using recipes in zenon. In the Service Engine or the Web Visualization Service, execution of the recipes can be done either via the screen for standard recipes or a pre-configured function from the Engineering Studio. By using a function it is for example possible to let the Service Engine start in a pre-defined state, simply by applying the right parameters.

How to create recipes in zenon

Find out, how quick and easy it is to create recipes in zenon without programming.

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zenon Recipegroup Manager

In addition to the standard recipes, zenon Recipegroup Manager simplifies the administration of large groups of recipes with the aid of many practical functions. The software enables recipes to be grouped and managed logically.

The benefits of zenon Recipegroup Manager include:

Table display for a clear overview of equipment for target/actual comparison.
Numerous functions for the flexible administration of any number of recipes in zenon Service Engine, such as: opening, writing, reading, overwriting, copying, duplicating, exporting or importing recipes.
Import recipe data from external data sources.
Read in current equipment values in order to save them in a recipe (teaching).
Use existing recipes as a template aided by zenon’s recipe versioning and status handling to help users and save time.
Preconfigured standard screens in delivery scope.
Recipe variables can be changed and used directly in
zenon process screens.
Can be used with interlocking, e.g. of recipe parameters.
Comprehensive filtering capabilities (e.g. for status, filter
texts or version).
Individual keyboards/input fields possible for each
parameter.

Using recipes in zenon Service Engine

See in this short video, how recipes can be operated in zenon Service Engine - reliably and flexibly.

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Changes of recipes in zenon Service Engine can be read back to the zenon Engineering Studio at any time, to ensure you keep your project configuration up to date. Updated data is immediately available everywhere via the network. All functions can be triggered manually or called up automatically.

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Security and operating concepts with zenon

Recipes can enable considerable changes to the equipment to be made. zenon therefore offers sophisticated security mechanisms and access rights. You can control, monitor and log access to your recipes to ensure their correct and secure execution.

Technical Details

- For every Recipe Group there is a dedicated set of files and folders created including the definition which variables belong to the recipe group, which values shall be written and which version of the recipe the user is currently dealing with.
- Recipe Groups or its recipes can be created either in Engineering Studio or the Service Engine. Feedback variables can only be defined if the Recipe Group is created in the Engineering Studio.
- Standard Recipes and Recipe Groups are written only by the server when zenon Network is used since the server is responsible for connection to the PLCs.
- Standard Recipe or Recipegroup Manager functions triggered on the client route the request to write to the server where it is executed.
- Logging of all changes to the recipes.
- Password-protected access, compliant with FDA 21 CFR Part 11.
- Logging of all discharged values with old value/new value.
- Status monitoring: whether a recipe has already been fully written to the PLC and which recipe is currently loaded.
- In the event of an error, an alarm can be triggered immediately or the operation of the equipment can be blocked until the recipe has been written in full.
- Blocked writing ensures that the data arrives at the PLC immediately.
- A definable sequence sets out which variables are written first; users are kept informed by a progress bar.
- Read, write, copy, duplicate
- Flexible import/export from a range of third-party data sources
- Strings in recipes
- Standard screen in project delivery scope
- Setting parameters also possible directly via process screens
- Versioning
- Status handling (interlocking to user administration)
- Freely definable keyboards/input fields
- Extensive filter functions
- Interlocking of recipe parameters

zenon Recipegroup Manager in action

An important element of SIGs bottling line concept is its versatility. Customers can fill different products or recipes with little effort. Packaging formats and sizes can vary. For this reason, SIG uses zenon to provide a simple and user-friendly visual implementation. In the zenon Recipe Group Manager, different variants can be stored with all the details, such as speeds, temperatures, pressure, quantities or packaging sizes.

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