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OP37 Equipment Manual
Release 05/99
A
recipe consists of a series of recipe entries. Each entry contains no more than
one input field (tag).
The
Mixture
recipe might contain the following entries:
Name:
Orange:
Water:
Sugar:
Flavor:
l
l
kg
g
Input
fields (variables)
Values
are assigned to the input field tags on the OP and stored. T
ogether
, these
values form one data record of the recipe.
Several data records can be created for one recipe. This enables the fruit juice
system, for example, to produce drinks of dif
ferent kinds. It uses a dif
ferent
data record for each drink:
Name:
Orange:
Water:
Sugar:
Flavor:
“Mixture”
recipe
entries
Beverage
90 l
10 l
1.5 kg
200 g
Nectar
70 l
30 l
1.5 kg
400 g
Juice
95 l
5 l
0.5 kg
100 g
Data record 2 Data record 3Data record 1
All
data records are stored in the OP
. Only the currently active data record is
stored on the PLC. This saves memory space on the PLC.
A recipe is created under a symbolic name in the configuration. The recipe is
also selected using this symbolic name on the OP
.
Ingredients of a
recipe
Data records on
the OP
Identifying recipes
Recipes
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