Recipe Building Block 

Definition

An object that, together with other objects, forms a recipe.

Use

A recipe building block is created independently of the recipe and can be copied as often as required. The building block is not linked to the recipe.

You can create the following recipe objects as recipe building blocks:

●     Process

●     Process stage

●     Process operation

●     Process action

●     Equipment requirement

You can also create and edit all these objects as dependent objects in the recipe.

Equipment requirements, processes, and process elements are often identical in many recipes, processes, or process elements or contain much identical data. To save you having to enter this data from scratch in each recipe, you can use recipe building blocks as copy templates and copy them as follows:

●     You can copy process element building blocks to an existing recipe.

●     You can copy equipment requirement building blocks to an existing recipe.

●     You can create a recipe with the data for a process building block.

You can also copy process element building blocks and equipment requirement building blocks to existing process building blocks and process element building blocks. The procedure is the same as for recipes.

Structure

Recipe building blocks are created as specifications of the following specification categories:

Recipe Building Block	Specification Category
Process, process stage, process operation, process action	Process element
Equipment requirement	Equipment requirement

You can therefore search for, load, and edit recipe building blocks just as other specifications (see Loading of Specifications).

In a recipe building block, you can specify the following data just as in the corresponding dependent recipe objects:

●     In the building block, you can specify recipe objects that lie below the current recipe building block in the hierarchy (see Process Model). For example, in a process building block you can specify process stages, process operations, process actions, and equipment requirements. You can specify equipment requirements in every process element, but one process action can contain only one equipment requirement.

●     You can assign classes and characteristics to the building block and enter data for the characteristics. You can only assign one class to one equipment requirement. You use this classification to group building blocks by assigning similar building blocks to the same class and assigning building block-specific characteristics to the class characteristics.

●     To describe the process flow in more detail, you can assign process parameters to the building block and enter data in them. Process parameters include temperature, density, or velocity, for example.

●     You can enter descriptions for the building block in the form of identifiers.

●     You can assign centrally managed documents to the building block that are stored in SAP Document Management, for example, standard operating procedures or plant diagrams.

●     You can enter language-dependent short and long texts for descriptive purposes.