DeltaV Batch Control and Recipe Management

DeltaV™ Batch Control and Recipe Management is a comprehensive batch manufacturing solution from Emerson, built on the ISA-88.01 (S88) batch standard. Designed for life sciences, pharmaceutical, and other regulated industries, it empowers plants to achieve flexible manufacturing goals, increase production throughput, and minimize risk while establishing a strong foundation for compliance. The system is fully integrated into the DeltaV Distributed Control System (DCS), offering flexible I/O, embedded intelligence, intuitive operator environments, standards-based data connections, and a focus on data integrity.

DeltaV Batch enables sophisticated sequencing coordination across a plant while ensuring proper equipment utilization. Its S88-compliant structure allows engineering teams to develop reusable libraries of software modules, significantly reducing testing and validation efforts. Decision-makers at every level can access critical data reliably, securely, and in real time.

Key Benefits

• Respond faster to changing markets: Quickly deliver critical products to market with more flexible equipment integration and reduced engineering time.
• Increase production speed: Automated equipment selection, coordinated recipe execution, synchronization, and redundant operation capabilities help achieve greater uptime.
• Improve traceability: Enhance compliance through stored historical data, automatic event capture, and configuration management.
• Make smarter, faster decisions: State-of-the-art operator interfaces dynamically present the data needed, anywhere and anytime.
• Achieve current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP): Meet data integrity requirements and support standards through an ISA88-based system architecture.
• Accelerate new product introduction: Reduce validation time, increase development efficiency, and improve technology transfer.
• Save time, effort, and costs: Integrate and standardize on a single control system architecture that enables access to real-time, meaningful data while reducing overall costs.
• Improve availability: Eliminate points of failure that interrupt batch operations and cause costly downtime.

DeltaV Batch Software Suite Components

• Batch Software Suite: Fully integrated into the DeltaV system, including process cells, unit modules, phases, equipment modules, and control modules.
• Batch Executive: Coordinates all activities during batch operation, serving as the central orchestration engine.
• Batch Redundancy: Eliminates single points of failure through redundant Batch Executives without interrupting ongoing batch operations.
• Batch Historian: Collects and displays recipe execution data from the DeltaV Batch Executive and process event data from the DeltaV Event Chronicle.
• DeltaV Campaign Manager: A tightly integrated component providing an easy-to-use campaign creation and management interface within the DeltaV Batch product suite.
• DeltaV Recipe Exchange: Provides an open, programmatic interface to the DeltaV recipe management system for seamless data exchange.
• Advanced Unit Management Software: Offers class-based Unit, Equipment Modules, Control Modules, and Unit Phases to simplify the development of unit-relative equipment strategies.
• DeltaV Recipe Studio: Enables users to create, modify, and troubleshoot recipes and construct batch control strategies quickly and easily.

Related DeltaV Batch Technologies

• DeltaV Live: The most advanced DeltaV HMI ever developed, providing a modern operator interface.
• Configuration Audit Trail: Tracks changes and manages revision information for any item in the DeltaV configuration database.
• Configuration Software Suite: Manages all aspects of system configuration.
• Continuous Historian: Provides a database designed for historical storage, retrieval, and open access integrated into the DeltaV system.
• History Analysis: A web-based historian client application for viewing DeltaV historical data from any computer.
• History View Software Suite: Provides a unified window into continuous, event, and batch data.
• Event Chronicle: Captures events electronically and provides each with a complete process event record.
• DeltaV Operate: Offers single-click access to graphics, directories, and other applications.
• Monitor and Control Software: Supports strategy development with class-based configuration, advanced unit management, and advanced control features.
• Workstation Hardware: Provides a guaranteed solution to deliver the performance required for batch operations.

Services and Support

• Project Services: Performance services offering expertise and support to advance plant operations.
• Lifecycle Services: Global Service Centers supporting all service requirements and technical queries.
• Education Services: A full range of training options from Emerson's Educational Services to improve workforce capability.
• Consulting Services: Reliability services focused on avoiding unplanned shutdowns, increasing yield, and reducing costs.
• Guardian™ Support: Manages product support, subscriptions, and licenses, and connects to lifecycle software and services for Emerson's automation and control software portfolio.

DeltaV Batch is purpose-built for life sciences and regulated manufacturing environments, with recent innovations including the DeltaV MES Recipe Importer Tool — which automates batch record creation to reduce timelines from months to days — and the DeltaV PKM Modality Library, designed to shorten technology transfer and accelerate the delivery of new treatments to patients. The platform supports end-to-end data mobility across the life sciences value chain, from R&D through commercial manufacturing.