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Unlocking the Secret Profiles of Batch Reactors
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How to Find Out What’s Really Going On In Your Process

SCADA Software Keeps Eye on Big Picture
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Truly Useful Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) Software Never Dies

Managing Batch Processes in 2020
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Senior Pharmaceutical Executives Agree, the Motif of Batch Manufacturing Will Change Dramatically In the Next Dozen Years

Contenders or Pretenders? Expanded Coverage
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Read Our Expanded Coverage, Including the System Integrator’s View

White Papers: In Depth Research

ISA 95 Integration Between SAP R/3 and Batch in
Author: Stephan Van Dijck, WBF
Posted: 06/23/2008
The ISA 95 Enterprise to Manufacturing integration model is used to structure the integration processes between business systems and the plant floor. Through the use of the ISA 95 “structures, a “common denominator” business model was established for integrating SAP’s R/3 PP-PI transactions and data structures with an ISA 88 batch automation data structure.

Exception Handling for Optimal Batch Production
Author: Paul J. Marriott BEng, CEng, MIEE, WBF
Posted: 06/23/2008
This paper supports the application of an “Intelligent” exception handling strategy, which helps to provide maximum business benefit and optimum batch production. Incorrect or incomplete design of the exception handling philosophy for a batch control system can have a detrimental effect to the batch process performance, including both the batch quality and processing time. Even though most people would agree with this, exception handling is often an area of batch control system design not always given the level of attention it duly requires, even though it can have such a significant impact.

Batch Modeling in Pharma Industry: The Role of the Engineering Company
Author: Valerio Sala
Posted: 06/23/2008
The S88.01 rule is today a well accepted standard all over the world: all qualified engineers involved in the design of a batch control system are getting familiar with the terminology and models therein described. The focus is now on the implementation. As a matter of fact, the S88.01 standard is not a prescriptive guideline. This means that engineers must define, for each project, which documents are to be produced, by whom and with which formalisms.

Batch Control Analysis
Author: Ferenc Molnár, Tibor Chován, Tibor Nagy, WBF
Posted: 06/23/2008
Batch control analysis is one of steps in the design of plants executing batch process - an S88-based analysis of batch process from the control point of view. It is between the conceptual design of the batch process (PFD or P&I) and the start of the design of the control system (design of instrumentation, control hardware and software). Its objective is to fill the gap almost always found between the formulation of requirements and the specification of the actual implementation. It transforms user requirements into “process-based” detailed functional requirements. It has several advantages if these problems are handled, not by software engineers, rather by batch control analysts who are closer to the plant and know the process better.

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