Here is an example of the BatchView client.
This BatchView client is
designed to allow you to compare repeated events.
In this case we are using a very
traditional repeat event-- that would be a batch of pharmaceuticals for example.
In the pharmaceutical industry, they are making
the same product over and over again using
pre-defined recipes that are fairly similar to each other.
So imagine that you have got... As we see in gold here,
a perfect instance of that
batch. The best that you have ever made that product
before and you'd like to be able to compare
the current batches and other batches to that best batch you ever made.
This will be a great tool to do that.
Because what we are looking at here, is
we are looking at search results that are looking for a
specific product given a certain
time span and then comparing,
for example, the flow or we can
look at the temperature... Comparing
different things that have happened
during that particular batch.
This is what temperature profile of
those sets of batches look like. So we are comparing
events to each other. If you look at the absolute
time, these are all occurring at different times.
but we superimpose them on top of each other
because it's easier to make comparisons.
So by making a comparison, we can learn
from that best batch or
from the aggregate... the
averages... What works best for a
particular product or particular procedure or recipe.
There are all kinds of nice features that we have built into
this. For example, I can dig down through this
and zoom in on particular
steps. We are going to look at the drop step there.
This is comparing the drop phases.
Now they are all currently all aligned
within the start of the batch. But I could
actually align this to the start of that particular
phase for that particular sub-unit.
I am going to go ahead and restore this now.
And I can do that for any of these
the mixed phase, the dropped phase. I can
[inaudible] so that we are
comparing like batches...
that we are comparing them all at the same time. If we look at
these, they are all aligned now at their drop phase.
So far I have discussed
compare one batch to another.
Comparing repeated events one to another.
But you can also compare the different units that are involved.
For example, if we take a look at this
end time.. I will switch this
over to absolute instead of relative time.
Instead of relative to the start of the batch. You can see that some of these
actually overlap and they overlap because they are being done in
different mixes. There are different pieces of equipment involved.
See this is the most recent one. These are in different mixers here...
I can
further point this out I suppose
by going into my layout. Let me configure this Gantt chart
so that on the unit batch, we are actually looking at the
unit name.
As you can see, this is giving you a good idea
of which is mixer1 and which is mixer2.
And one of the interesting things that you can do, if you
go back far enough, let's go back and see if we can find some more batches.
Let's go back and look at all of these batches
within that start to end period.
There is an awful lot of batches
here. What we can do..
I have probably gotten too many now. But we can
compare mixer1 and mixer2. Let's
see if we are running this comparably-- is there the same
amount of turnaround time between each? So let me go in
and change this... We will
go with the last 20 of these batches.
Let me zoom in here and what I am looking
for is any... This is mixer2
and this is mixer1. I am looking
for any.. This is interesting here. It looks like between
mixer1 and there seems to
be a gap here between
the turn around between these two events.
So you are looking for things like that. You are looking for
anything that indicates that maybe people are running it differently...
There is a longer turn around time between different pieces of equipment.
And so for doing those types of comparisons
we offer the BatchView tools.