. BATCH SYSTEMS.
· ISA88 BATCH SYSTEMS ·
Enhance your product consistency and flexibility while maintaining regulatory compliance across the
FOOD & BEVERAGE, PHARMACEUTICAL, AND CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES.
OUR ISA88 BATCH SYSTEMS are designed to meet the needs of different industries,
ranging from BLENDERS FOR THE FOOD & BEVERAGE SECTOR TO BIOREACTORS FOR THE PHARMACEUTICALS INDUSTRY
AND R&D REACTORS FOR THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY.
Automation-IT goes beyond meeting standards – it sets them.
Deliver consistent high-quality products while reducing downtime, gaining market entry quickly, and ensuring compliance.
We believe that success lies in the details,
SO WE OFFER TAILORED SOLUTIONS
TAILORED TO YOUR NEEDS
OPTIMIZE YOUR PROCESSES
TO MAXIMIZE YOUR PRODUCTIVITY.
· CONTACT US TODAY ·
to find out what we can do for you
contact@automation-it.com
+1 (513) 431-8730
· WHY PROPERLY MODELING THE PROCESS
IS CRUCIAL FOR A BATCH PROJECT SUCCESS? ·
Whether it’s an app or a project, we’re here to help.
Creating reliable and consistent batch systems is a process that requires
EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE, AND A COMMITMENT TO EXCELLENCE.
It is critical to create models and test them during this process.
Models can provide process engineers with an effective way
to analyze systems and fix potential problems.
A flawed process model, however, could spell disaster down the road.
A flawed conceptualization can increase maintenance and equipment costs,
complicate the process, and result in a failed investment.
COMBINES ITS EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE
WITH AN ITERATIVE PROCESS TO GUARANTEE A QUALITY PRODUCT
that incorporates client feedback.
Here are FOUR STORIES about batch systems that were poorly modeled:
· CASE ONE ·
AN OVERLY
COMPLICATED PROCESS
A pharmaceutical company
created a facility to produce a new drug, spending three years of pre-work to make it operational.
Unfortunately, the batch system
would not run properly.
Engineers tried fix after fix, but nothing would work.
Why? Because it was incorrectly conceived
from the beginning.
Eventually, they made it run, but it is complex, unreliable, and will be complicated to maintain
all because the concept was bad from the beginning.
Another pharmaceutical company
had a similar problem:
the concept for the system was okay,
but it was poorly implemented
which meant it required an automation technician’s intervention
throughout the day to keep production going.
To make things worse,
the HMI interface was confusing and unhelpful,
so they couldn’t always pinpoint the problem.
Production continues but with
daily headaches and increased costs.
· CASE TWO ·
INCREASED MAINTENANCE
AND EQUIPMENT COSTS
· CASE THREE ·
A FAILED INVESTMENT
A food manufacturing company
called one of our experts in panic.
The problem?
They couldn’t get their batches to run,
and they didn’t know why.
We analyzed the system and saw that
it was completely misconceived from the beginning.
Quite simply, it didn’t work.
There was no easy fix,
so the company’s original investment was lost.
They sold the plant
and didn’t even make the product.
A company felt the confidence
to create a system themselves,
but they did not have the required knowledge
to create and model it properly.
The company forced the system integrator
to reprogram the entire system
following the faulty instructions,
and during the FAT they realized
the system wouldn’t work.
As a consequence, the project was frozen for years.
We could share story after story about how poorly conceptualized modeling
ruined a project and cost companies
millions of dollars.
But what all of these stories have in common
is that they could have avoided these problems
had their batch system engineers
modeled the process properly.
THE MORAL OF THESE STORIES:
DON’T UNDERESTIMATE THE ISA88 CONCEPTUALIZATION
· CASE FOUR ·
A CASE OF OVERCONFIDENCE
THE PROCESS IS BOTH AN ART AND A SCIENCE,
AND IT REQUIRES A UNIQUE COMBINATION OF
KNOWLEDGE, SKILL, CREATIVITY, AND FINESSE
· ASSET UTILIZATION
Greater flexibility
Manage Shared Resources
Streamline Processes
. QUALITY .
Electronically track and guide steps
Quality issues corrected in real time
Reduce variability
. COST .
Optimize WIP
Track Materials additions (Gains & Losses)
· THROUGHPUT ·
Decrease cycle time
