Method for providing control to an industrial process using one or more multidimensional variables

US7136716B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Smiths Detection Inc. · US

Inventors

• Chang-Meng Hsiung · Redwood City, US
• Bethsabeth Munoz · Pasadena, US
• Ajoy Roy · Danvers, US
• Michael Gregory Steinthal · Los Angeles, US
• Steven A. Sunshine · Pasadena, US
• Michael Allen Vicic · Pasadena, US
• Shou-Hua Zhang · Pasadena, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 25, 2005
• Grant date: Nov 14, 2006
• Expiry date: May 25, 2025

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P90/80
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A method for controlling an industrial process. The method includes outputting a plurality of parameters from a process for manufacture of a substance. The method also uses each of the plurality of parameters in a computer aided process, which compares at least two of the plurality of parameters against a training set of parameters. The training set of parameters is generally predetermined. A step of determining if the at least two of the plurality of parameters are within a predetermined range of the training set of parameters also is included. Additionally, the method includes outputting a result based upon the determining step.