Abstract
Process industries are experiencing change in the tremendous business environment, including heightened competition with developing countries in commodity chemical manufacturing and with developed countries in fine chemical manufacturing, heightened public concern about environmental impacts and safety issues, and demands for more efficient use of capital and a higher profitability. Under these circumstances, the batch processing is becoming increasingly important due to a greater emphasis on low-volume, higher added value products, and the need for flexibility in a market-driven environment. In this research, a batch process operation management platform is designed based on ANSI/ISA -S 88 and the multi-dimensional formalism (MDF). The proposed scheme shows a number of advantages such as a systematic and automatic generation of control recipes, design rationales usable throughout the lifecycle of the batch process operation, guaranteed feasibility of control recipes, improved modularity and transparency of auxiliary operations, sophisticated support of maintenance activities and the development of products and processes.
