Die Moderne Fabrik als Herausforderung an die Meß- und Regelungstechnik

Summary

Modern process simulation methods can be used to simulate an actual production process close to its real behaviour, thus obtaining a working basis for developing the control process. The investigation of the structure of this process reveals that the relationship between quantity and process type, hitherto regarded as a major obstacle to automation, can in principle be resolved in discontinuous processes. Operation based on discontinuous production, which generally requires human intervention (open loop), is thus transformed into an automatic process (closed loop). The need for such processes is growing more and more, particularly with the increasing diversity of the product spectrum.