Position: Bachelor Controls (BCI) has leveraged more than two decades of specialized batching experience to design BCI BATCH ENGINE XC— a flexible, configurable batch scheduling and control system.Working closely with AZO engineers and specialists, Bachelor Controls has produced a package tailored to work with AZO’s top-quality ingredient automation and management equipment.
The company provides you with flexibility in recipe design, enabling you to optimize your cycle times and equipment utilization, and to provide data collection and management for corporate reporting and analysis. In short,we seek to maximize the efficiency of your production process.
Using state-of-the-art technology and proven best practices, BCI has produced a package capable of handling/batching control issues in your system. The company provides advanced recipe editing and management, flexible inventory and ingredient solutions, batching control and execution options, and robust data and reporting tools to improve your corporate performance.Options include campaign management components, lot tracking capabilities and enhanced security features.
Recipes are the key to producing batches and are built around your unique equipment configuration. Each recipe consists of a set of sequential steps, and each step consists of one or more phases. The phases contain the ingredients and their corresponding percentages or set weights necessary to produce a given product. The phases also contain any run-time parameters required to make a given product, such as mix times and mix speeds by the control of batching controller.
The company is very flexible and allows many different products or variations of products to be produced by creating different recipes.
The Recipe Manager allows you to create, modify and delete an almost unlimited number of recipes, each with a time and date stamp and revision number for version control.
