Use the Materials Editor
- Last UpdatedOct 29, 2024
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You can define, edit, and delete the processing materials used in your plant. As you enter materials, the Materials Editor verifies that each Material ID is unique. You can enter as many materials as your process requires.
WARNING! Deleting materials from the Materials database can affect recipe processing. Before you delete or modify a material, ensure that you understand how your particular application manages materials.
You must assign the following characteristics when you define materials.
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Item |
Required or Optional |
Description |
|---|---|---|
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Type |
Required |
Each material must be defined as an Ingredient, Intermediate, Finished Good, By-Product, |
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Material ID |
Required |
16 characters maximum. |
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Name |
Optional |
40 characters maximum. You can use this name to represent the actual name of the material. |
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Description |
Optional |
120 characters maximum. |
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Unit of Measure |
Optional |
12 characters maximum. |
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High Dev |
Optional |
Value between 0.00 and 100.00, inclusive. |
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Low Dev |
Optional |
Value between 0.00 and 100.00, inclusively. |
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Characteristics |
Optional |
Each material can have an unlimited set of characteristics. Characteristics help distinguish
materials from one another. They also allow you to separate lots of the same material.
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