Batch Manager (BatchMngr)

Restarting Batches

All batches are resumed in their previous state upon system restart.

Phase/Batch Status

The Batch Manager controls all active phases upon a single batch phase becoming held or restarted.

Init Status Tags

The Batch Manager sets all unit and segment status tags to the default value defined in the Process Model.

LIFO Materials

Material consumption uses LIFO instead of the default FIFO method.

Unit States

Enables the use of Unit State system tags by Batch Manager. Refer to Chapter 10, "Batch Management System.", for details on unit control using Unit State tags.

COM Interface

Enables the use of COM for batch hooks in Batch Manager.

Disable Warm Restart

Disables loading and saving of warm restart information.
All batches are lost when the application stops.

Parm Timeout (sec)

The time value, in seconds, of all the attempts to read a parameter tag value at the end of a phase, before the Batch Manager stops trying. The default value is 30 seconds. A value of zero disables retries. The Batch Manager retries reading the parameters if the timestamp of the parameter tags is older than the timestamp of the Done phase status tag, or if the quality of the parameter tag is not good.
If the tag read operation times out due to the timestamp being old, a message is logged to the System Management Console (SMC) Logger and the last read value is used for the batch history. If the timeout occurs due to bad tag quality, the batch is put on hold and the tag read error notifications are sent to the batch clients.

Semi-Auto On Abort

The batch is placed in Semi-Automatic mode when a phase is cancelled.

Batch Stats

The time interval at which batch diagnostic data is dumped into the BatchStats.txt file.

We highly recommend that you use this parameter only under the guidance of Technical Support.

Disconnect Clients

Disconnects all deadlocked clients.

z

(AdviseParams) The value in this parameter causes BatchMngr to advise parameter tags while a phase is running, so that when it reads the parameters at the end of the phase, the values in the cache will be fresh.
This option does not require a value.

t

(No System Tag Write) Batch Manager will not write system tags from a warm restart at startup.
This option does not require a value.