Equipment Requirements Component

Equipment requirements specify the process classes and attributes required by a recipe. When you define attributes, you must specify the minimum and maximum values for each attribute. For example, if a recipe requires a 500 or 1000 pound reactor, the minimum and maximum values for the Capacity attribute are 500 and 1000, respectively. When a very specific characteristic is required, the minimum and the maximum should be assigned the same number.

When you define trains, multiple destination units can be available for a given transfer. There might be times when you want to give an operator the flexibility to select a destination unit and other times when this selection is automatic. You can enable this feature when you define equipment requirements for a recipe.

The Recipe Editor automatically inherits all process and transfer phases associated with the process classes defined in the equipment requirements. These are the only phases that you can use to build a recipe procedure.