Device and method for carrying out the decentralized production of desired products from different starting materials, and an automated process system

US6944512B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Seimens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Fritz Breimesser · Nürnberg, DE
• Joerg Hassel · Erlangen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 9, 2003
• Grant date: Sep 13, 2005
• Expiry date: Apr 9, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P90/02
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An arrangement, system and process for producing desired products (1) in at least one decentralized automated process system (3), which processes starting materials (2) provided therefor into the respective product (1) in accordance with formulation data (25) that are input into the process system (3). The process system (3) is connected to a remote central computational device (28) via a communications medium (27). An input device (22), which is also connected to the communications medium (27), serves for inputting a product selection (37), whereby the central computational device (28) obtains, according to the received product selection (37), the formulation data (25) that is necessary for producing the desired product (1), or conveys this formulation data to the process system. The formulation data are obtained from a formulation data collection for the automated process system (3). Each production process of the products (1) is logged with regard to quantity and quality-relevant process data (13′) in the central computational device (28).