Production installation for a chemical or pharmaceutical product

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10108184-B2
Application number	US-201314437747-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 6, 2013
Priority date	Nov 8, 2012
Publication date	Oct 23, 2018
Grant date	Oct 23, 2018

Abstract

A production installation having at least two process modules (P1, . . . , Pn) that can be connected to one another for production engineering purposes and a communication network (2), wherein each process module (P1, . . . , Pn) has an electronic device by means of which the respective process module (P1, . . . , Pn) can be connected to the communication network (2) for communications engineering purposes and is set up to control and/or regulate the respective process module (P1, . . . , Pn) to independently carry out a particular process section of the production.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A production plant for producing a chemical and/or pharmaceutical product comprising at least two process modules (P 1 , . . . , Pn), connected to one another for production purposes, and a communication network, wherein each one of the at least two process modules (P 1 , . . . , Pn) includes an electronic device (E 1 , . . . , E n ) wherein each electronic device (E 1 , . . . , E n ) connects each of the at least two process modules (P 1 , . . . , Pn) to the communication network for communication purposes and is additionally programmed to control and/or regulate each of the at least two process modules (P 1 , . . . , Pn) to independently carry out a particular process section of production, wherein each of the electronic devices (E 1 , . . . , E n ) are configured in such a manner that the at least two process modules (P 1 , . . . , Pn) connected to the communication network for communication purposes automatically communicate with one another at least in such a manner that at least one of the at least two process modules (P 1 , . . . , Pn) automatically requests information from at least one other of the at least two process modules (P 1 , . . . , Pn), wherein the requested information comprises at least information in the form of given and/or expected process parameters with regard to the process section carried out or to be carried out by at least one of the at least two process modules (P 1 , . . . , Pn) providing the requested information, wherein each electronic device (E 1 , . . . , E n ) of the at least two process modules (P 1 , . . . , Pn) is programmed to use the requested information obtained from a different one of the at least two process modules (P 1 , . . . , Pn) to control and/or regulate the process module (P 1 , . . . , Pn).

2. The production plant as claimed in claim 1 , wherein at least one of the at least two process modules (P 1 , . . . , Pn) is modular and comprises at least two process submodules (p 1 , . . . , pm) which are connected to one another for process engineering purposes and are connected to the communication network for communication purposes, wherein the electronic device (E 1 , . . . , E n ) of each one of the at least one of the modular process modules (P 1 , . . . , Pn) is configured, before the start of a process section to be carried out by at least one of the at least two process modules (P 1 , . . . , Pn), to detect, via the communication network, whether the at least one of the at least two process modules (P 1 , . . . , Pn) comprises one or more process submodules (p 1 , . . . , pm) which are suitable for the process section to be carried out using at least one of the at least two process modules (P 1 , . . . , Pn).

3. The production plant as claimed in claim 2 , wherein the electronic device (E 1 , . . . , E n ) of at least one of the at least two process modules (P 1 , . . . , Pn) is configured to acquire information relating to the respective state of the process submodules (p 1 , . . . , pm) via the communication network before the start of the process section to be carried out by the at least two process modules (P 1 , . . . , Pn).

4. The production plant as claimed in claim 1 further comprising a superordinate control and/or regulating device connected to the communication network for communication purposes, wherein the superordinate control and/or regulating device is programmed to automatically request information from at least one of the at least two process modules (P 1 , . . . , Pn) connected to the communication network, wherein the information requested by the superordinate control and/or regulating device comprises at least information in the form of basic functions and/or special functions of the at least one of the at least two process modules (P 1 , . . . , Pn) with respect to the basic processes and/or special processes carried out using the at least one of the at least two process modules (P 1 , . . . , Pn) and/or information in the form of given and/or expected process parameters with respect to the process section carried out or to be carried out by the at least one of the at least two process modules (P 1 , . . . , Pn) providing this information.

5. The production plant as claimed in claim 4 , wherein each electronic device (E 1 , . . . , E n ) of the at least two process modules (P 1 , . . . , Pn) is programmed to configure the special functions of the at least two process modules (P 1 , . . . , Pn), wherein the superordinate control and/or regulating device is programmed to configure individual electronic devices (E 1 , . . . , E n ) of each of the at least two process modules (P 1 , . . . , Pn) to carry out production in a production-specific manner on the basis of the information requested from the at least two process modules (P 1 , . . . , Pn) connected to the communication network.

6. The production plant as claimed in claim 4 , wherein the superordinate control and/or regulating device is configured to detect, via the communication network, whether the production plant comprises at least two process modules (P 1 , . . . , Pn) suitable for the production to be carried out using the production plant before the start of the production to be carried out by the production plant.

7. The production plant as claimed in claim 2 , wherein each of the one or more process submodules (p 1 , . . . , pm) has a subordinate electronic device configured to connect each one of the one or more of the process submodules (p 1 , . . . , pm) to the communication network for communication purposes and is programmed to control and/or regulate each one of the one or more process submodules (p 1 , . . . , pm) to independently carry out a particular process subsection of production, wherein the subordinate electronic devices are programmed in such a manner that each one of the one or more process submodules (p 1 , . . . , pm) connected to the communication network for communication purposes automatically communicate with at least one other of the one or more of the process submodules (p 1 . . . pm) and/or with at least one of the at least two of the process modules (P 1 , . . . , Pn) connected to the communication network at least in such a manner that at least one of the one or more process submodules (p 1 , . . . , pm) automatically requests information from at least one other of the one or more process submodules (p 1 , . . . , pm) or from at least one of the at least two process modules (P 1 , . . . , Pn), wherein the requestable information comprises at least information in the form of given and/or expected process parameters with respect to the process subsection carried out or to be carried out by the at least one of the one or more process submodules (p 1 , . . . , pm) providing this information or at least information in the form of given and/or expected process parameters with respect to the process section carried out or to be carried out by the at least one of the at least one of the process modules (P 1 , . . . , Pn) providing this information, wherein each electronic device of one or more of the process submodules (p 1 , . . . , pm) is programmed to use the information obtained from a another of the one or more process submodules (p 1 , . . . , pm) or from at least one of the at least one process modules (P 1 , . . . , Pn) to control and/or regulate at least one of one or more the process submodules (p 1 , . . . , pm) assigned to it.

8. The production plant as claimed in claim 7 , wherein the superordinate control and/or regulating device is programmed to automatically request information from each of the one or more process submodules (p 1 , . . . , pm) connected to the communication network, wherein the information which can be requested by the superordinate control and/or regulating device comp

Assignees

• Bayer Ag

Inventors

• Ochs Stefan
• Schmitz Stefan
• Jagusch Gerd
• Meyer Carsten
• Busse Malik

Classifications

• G05B19/4185 Primary

  characterised by the network communication · CPC title

• G05B2219/32287

  Medical, chemical, biological laboratory · CPC title

• Y02P90/265

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• B01J19/004 Primary

  Multifunctional apparatus for automatic manufacturing of various chemical products (sequential reactions B01J19/0046) · CPC title

• B01J2219/0002

  Plants assembled from modules joined together · CPC title