Method and apparatus to configure an auxiliary recipe for execution during a batch recipe in a process control system

摘要

The present invention discloses an apparatus to execute an auxiliary recipe and a batch recipe in a process control system, the apparatus comprising:
a recipe interface to obtain an auxiliary recipe during execution of a batch recipe, wherein the batch recipe is associated with a first recipe identifier and the auxiliary recipe is associated with a second recipe identifier equal to the first recipe identifier;
a resource manager to identify equipment reserved for the batch recipe based on the first recipe identifier and to facilitate use of the equipment by the auxiliary recipe based on the second recipe identifier being equal to the first recipe identifier; and
an operating mode selector to cause execution of the auxiliary recipe, wherein the auxiliary recipe is to use the equipment reserved for the batch recipe based on the resource manager identifying the equipment based on the first and second recipe identifiers.