1. Steps in Enterprise Automation / Optimization
Sales planning, (rough) capacity planning, availability planning
Enterprise Resource Planning,
Advanced Planning System
(ERP, APS)
Horizontal and vertical integration (interfaces to ERP and PCS systems)
Material flow management
Process / laboratory data acquisition and administration (LIMS, PIMS)
Data analysis/process management (data mining, key performance indicators, Performance monitoring, alarm analysis)
Training simulators
Asset management (preventive maintenance devices / process diagnosis)
Production planning (of campaign, space and personnel deployment; production fine planning)
Manufacturing execution (electronic batch recording, recipe administration, order accounting, tracing of batches/materials)
Manufacturing Execution Systems
(MES)
Control systems (PLS, SPS, safety-related systems; recipe control, Start-up / shut-down recipes, load alternation, material flow control)
Process optimization (control optimization, advanced control)
E-technology & measurement and control technology (sensors, actuators, buses, concepts for power supply and distribution, redundancy concepts, MCC, etc.)
Process analysis technniques
Process Control Systems
Electrical & Instrumentation
Logistics control
Logistics administration
Process

2. Manufacturing Execution System Offline analysis (lab.)
Systems
SAP: Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
APO
Advanced Planner
and Optimizer WM
Warehouse
Management MM
Material
Management QM
Quality
Management
PP-PI
Production Planning Process Industry PM
Plant Maintenance
Exchange of information
Laboratory
automation
(LIMS)
Technical
logistics
(MIMS)
Manufact.
prep.
(control status)
Manufact.
execution
(batch)
Manufact.
data
evaluation
Asset managemt.
Perform.
monitoring
Advanced
Process Control
Manufacturing Execution System
Control system
Process
control
Sensors, actuators
PAT online
Offline analysis (lab.)
Feed logistics
Plant - Operation - Process - Laboratory
Product logistics

3. PMT Investment and Assembly Share 23% of Total Plant Investment
1% Supply Chain and Logistics
3% MES Systems
3% Control systems
3% Electroengineering
Total costs of plant
100 %
3% Final control equipment
8% classical sensors
2% Process analysis systems
Mean value of
15 assessed projects
Period: