Execution State Diagrams
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The control status IO defined on the Equipment will determine what states are used/entered during execution.

NOTE: A piece of equipment can only be in one of the states shown above at a time.
Recipe Execution
The control status IO defined on the Equipment is not used to determine the Recipe state. The state of the Recipe is updated when the operator issues a request, or the procedure execution completes.

The Recipe will always propagate the request as follows:
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Request Hold/Paused/Suspend/Abort/Stop
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Active Capabilities will process the request but only if the Capability supports that request.
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Active Transitions will process the request.
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Recipe will stay in the Requesting state until Procedure reports Held/Paused/Aborted/Stopped/Complete.
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Request Restart/Resume
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Active Capabilities that are currently Held/Paused will process the request but only if the Capability supports that request.
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Active Transitions that are currently Held/Paused will process the request.
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Recipe will stay in the Requesting State until the Procedure reports Running.
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Request Abandon
You can request for Abandon only when the recipe management states and control system states become out of sync. After the request is processed and the Recipe goes to Unknown state, you can delete that recipe.
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Active Capabilities will process the request and will go into the Unknown state.
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Active Transitions will process the request and will go into the Unknown state.
Note: You should never use Abandon request unless it is required.
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If the Equipment is configured to propagate status, the Capability status changes will propagate to the Recipe as well.
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The Capability's status will propagate to the Recipe when it enters the state Held/Paused/Aborted/Stopped.
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Recipe will enter the request Held/Paused/Aborted/Stopped state.
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Recipe will then in turn cascade request down to all Capabilities
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Example:
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Capability1 enters Paused then Capability 2 enters Aborted.
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ecipe will first enter Requesting Suspend but will then transition to Requesting Abort.
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Capability
The control status IO defined for a Capability will determine what states are available, and when they are entered.

Note: Recipe level requests to Stop/Abort will cause the capabilities currently in any of the following states: RequestingReset, WritingParameters, or WaitForAck/WaitingForReqEdits to go directly to Aborted/Stopped.
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If the StatusInterlocked IO value is bad quality, the engine will assume the value is true.
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Only 1 Status should be true at a time. If more than one Status IO is reporting true, the Capability will stay in its current state.
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If no IO is defined for StatusRunning, the engine will assume Running if all defined Status IO are false.
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Failures to write IO will automatically retry until successful. This applies to WritingParameters and all Requesting States.