FactoryTalk Batch Material Manager

FactoryTalk Batch

Material Manager

is used to track material consumption in batch recipes. It consists of two components: Material Server and Material Editor.

The Material Editor provides an interface to help you create the material database, which consists of material, lot, sublot, container, and storage location data. The Material Server provides the communication between the material database and the

FactoryTalk Batch

Server. During a batch run, information about available containers is presented to the operator for binding decisions. Binding is the process of mapping steps within a control recipe to actual equipment in a plant. After a batch is run, quantities consumed or distributed are updated in the material database for use in inventory tracking.

The Material Server consists of a group of components that work together to service various applications. The primary applications that the Material Server services are the Material Editor,

FactoryTalk Batch

Server,

FactoryTalk Batch Recipe Editor

, and

FactoryTalk Batch Equipment Editor

. Any third-party application can also use custom solutions based on the exposed Material Object Model (MOM).