FactoryTalk Batch

• Create and manage recipes and execute them automatically
• Reduce the hours needed for validating and commissioning
• Configure physical and procedural models
• Integrate with a wide variety of complementary software applications
• Collect detailed electronic batch data about your process to generate detailed reports
• Integrate and exchange batch and recipe information with corporate information systems
• Simulate your entire batch process
• Preserve and lock recipe versions
• Assign and trace approval workflow before recipe release to production
• Helps protect recipe and intellectual property from unauthorized use

Benefits

FactoryTalk® Batch allows your engineers to create processes that help your operators do their jobs more effectively:

• Maximize use of expensive equipment
• Share resources
• Switch equipment in the case of a failure
• Support 21 CFR Part 11 compliance with electronic signatures
• Streamline electronic signature set up

FactoryTalk Batch v12.0

Recipe Versioning Control

• Automatically assigns and stores each version of a recipe
• Preserves and locks recipes from changes
• Recipes can be checked out as work in progress, then checked back in as a new version
• Saves time and minimizes manual back-up for each recipe change

Recipe Release Security Workflow

• Assign specific people or roles to approve recipes before they advance to the production line
• Provides approval traceability
• Allows quality control managers to manage recipes easily

Recipe and Area Model Security Authority Identifier

• Provides extra layer of security
• Helps protect recipes and area model IP by assigning a security-authority token identifier
• Prevents unauthorized users from reading, exporting or executing procedures without identifier

Server Requirements

• Monitor – SVGA TrueColor with 2 MB of video RAM and 1024 x 768 resolution
• Mouse – Microsoft Mouse, Microsoft IntelliMouse® or compatible pointing device
• Browser – Internet Explorer 8, 9 (U.S. English)
• SQL Server Options:
  • SQL Server 2012, 32-bit or 64-bit, English only
  • SQL Server 2008, R2 Standard Edition, 32-bit, English only
  • SQL Server 2008, R2 Standard Edition, 64-bit, English only
• Network – 10 Megabit or faster Ethernet card, network cable
• Network Protocol – TCP/IP
• Backup – Removable media device such as a DVD-RW drive

Microsoft Corporation strongly recommends the use of a RAID-5 system for computers running SQL Server 2005 or SQL 2008

Client Requirements

If Windows XP SP3 32-bit; English only

• 1.8 GHz processor or greater
• 2 GB RAM recommended or more
• Available Hard Disk Space 24 GB recommended or more

If Windows 7 SP1 64-bit; English only

• 2.8 GHz processor or greater
• 2 GB RAM recommended or more
• Available Hard Disk Space 30 GB recommended or more

Microsoft

• Internet Explorer 8, 9
• Microsoft Office 2010
• Visual Basic 6.0, Service Pack 6
• SQL Server 2008 R2, Standard Edition, (English version only), or SQL Server 2012 (English version only)

Adobe

• Acrobat Reader 9.1

Rockwell Software

• RSLinx Classic version 2.58 OEM or higher
• Logix Designer (formerly RSLogix 5000) version 21
• RSLinx Enterprise version 5.40
• FactoryTalk Activation version 3.60
• FactoryTalk Services Platform version 2.60.00.12 (CPR 9 SR6)
• FactoryTalk View SE version 6 or version 6.1

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