_Working With Recipes

Recipe Administration

To do any recipe-related modifications, use the Recipe Admin page. It will either be located in your WebAdmin top navigation menu or some other easy to find location for your workflow:

If you cannot find the link, it can also be found at https://your.instance.name/dor/adminpages/recipeadmin.aspx. Simply replace the your.instance.name with the address of your Plant Focus instance.

Once on the Recipe Admin page, you'll see a series of tabs to interact with the various parts of the recipe system:

• Recipes - each recipe has a unique identifier as well as a friendly name for use by operators and users
• Recipe Types - used to filter recipes for a given machine so that only the relevant recipes show up in the OpStation or other entry interfaces
• Limit Groups / Color Groups - recipe-specific ways to highlight information in dashboards and reports
• Categories - the value-store for recipe specific parameters; examples are things like rated speed, chemical composition, weight, etc
• Components - how the categories should be grouped for the different outputs of the machine; examples are the cavities on a press or just one component for the whole machine
• Component Categories - the setup page for linking the categories to their components, setting which categories are required versus optional
• Import / Upload File - automated interface for uploading Excel representations of recipes; advanced users only

Editing Existing Recipes

First, find the recipe in the dropdown under the Create/Edit Recipe tab. You can start typing the name or key to find what you're looking for. In the below example, we typed FF into the dropdown and the list began filtering only those recipes containing FF:

Once you find the recipe you're looking for, click it and then click the Load Recipe button to the right. The recipe will load, as shown below:

Scroll down to see the various components and their category values. The current category values are displayed to the right of the entry boxes, where you can update the values. 

Once done editing, simply click the Save Recipe button. Any success or error messages will appear at the top once the operation is complete!

Cloning A Recipe

The most straightforward way to make a new recipe is to copy or clone an existing one that is close to your new recipe. 

First, load the recipe you want to clone. Second, click the Clone Recipe button:

The option Clone Into Recipe ID allows you to specify what key to use for the new recipe. This is useful if the recipe identifier is determined by a 3rd party system and you need to match the key to make Plant Focus and that system align.

The option Remove Old Recipe ID is for when you want to migrate a recipe to a new key. Removing the original recipe prevents confusion for operations and historical data analysis.

Creating A Recipe From Scratch

Another way to create a recipe is to start from scratch. This is the most time consuming method, but guarantees complete control from the start.

First, type the full recipe name you want into the recipe dropdown menu. Second, click the Create Recipe button.

After the recipe is created, you'll see it shown in the list with its new key and a success message. 

Click the Load Recipe button to see the newly created recipe. There will be no Component Groups loaded and no Recipe Type select, so the recipe is completely empty. First, select a Recipe Type. Second, load the appropriate Component Groups to the recipe.

In this example, we've loaded the four Cavity component groups:

Once you're done filling in all the required information, please remember to hit the Save Recipe button!

Deleting A Recipe

After loading a recipe, the Delete Recipe button is available. Be extra sure before using, as undoing the delete will require assistance from our support team.

Changing Effective Dates

If recipe data needs to change, the effective dates can be manipulated in the historical data and calculations will need to be re-done. It is an extremely rare but important edge case for the recipe system: the underlying history of when recipes are in production never changes, but the details of the recipe can be changed. This is for advanced users only.

Wrapping Up

Things to remember about the recipe system:

• Recipes currently in use cannot be edited
• Changing effective dates requires re-calculation of historical data - use with care and probably a quick message to our support team
• Ensure each recipe type has all the recipes it needs - recipes may need duplicated with the only difference being the recipe type