Appendix A Glossary
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of recipe design. A recipe can go through initial review using the
expedited process. After the recipe is deemed ready, the approval
process can be reverted to its starting point, and then the primary
approval process is used to validate it for release to production.
FactoryTalk Asset Centre
Formerly RSMACC (Rockwell Software Maintenance Automation
Control Center).
final (terminal) step
The logical end of a sequential function chart (SFC).
firing attribute
The Firing Attribute (formerly the Acquiring attribute) has nine legal states,
defined as follows:
"0": Not Firing - The transition is not in the firing process.
"1": Acquiring - The transition is in the process of acquiring resources for the
following steps.
"2": Binding - The transition is in the process of binding one or more of the
following steps.
"3": Committed - The transition is committed to the firing process, but is not
proceeding due to either a HELD state, or the parent procedure being in
MANUAL mode.
"4": Stopping - The transition is waiting for one or more prior steps to achieve
a terminal state after having been issued STOP commands.
"5": Resetting - The transition is waiting for one or more prior steps to
transition to IDLE after having been issued RESET commands.
"6": Pending - The transition is waiting for one or more prior steps to
transition into a legal state for a Transfer of Control operation.
"7": Paused - The transition is waiting for a RESUME command or a
return of the parent procedure to AUTO mode.
first available binding
• This is one of the ways that units are selected for binding. This is called
late unit binding or dynamic unit allocation. When automatically
selecting a unit for binding, the FactoryTalk Batch Server tries to use