How to Establish a Batch Best Practice

Overview:

All over the world, small and medium sized plants in the chemical, foods and beverage industries operate in manual or "manumatic" mode. For a small batch process operation to achieve the same level of excellence as larger companies, it must establish batch best practices. Batch manufacturing is a sequential processing activity at the level of process cells. In these cells, control modules are applied to equipment modules to run a recipe in a specific unit. To establish a best practice it is necessary to link it to a determinate Process Cell and make the right choice in process modularization. An example process cell is postulated and a possible process material selection control module discussed. Some alternatives are compared and some fundamental parameters identified to be optimized in the best batch sense.