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Safety, speed & ease of use

Through 20 years of field experience our engineers have repeatedly come across same issues. Most of established batch products on the market are highly complexed & priced products that are suitable for larger production processes.  Because of the history, and because not everyone is happy with PC-based solutions, many home-made solutions exist.

One of the main disadvantages of batch products is also the fact that they are executed on PC server. As PCs and communication links are widely known as a weak point in the automation industry, their failure often results in procedure termination. This often leads to high unexpected cost.  PLCbatch relocates the execution of recipes from the inherently unreliable PC platform to the considerably more reliable PLC platform. The simplification of recipe-based batch process control systems does not reduce the expressive power and the abstraction level significantly.