Integrated planning of production and/or maintenance plans

A method for planning production and/or maintenance of a raw materials industry plant (ANL), the method comprising:

• controlling the raw materials industry plant (ANL) by an automation system and executing a sequence of production orders under control by the automation system, producing, by the raw materials industry plant (ANL), a number of output products (Ai) from a number of input products (Ei) per production order;
• using a production planning system with a time horizon of at least several days, for determining future production planning data (Pi), specifying by the production planning system at which times selected input products (Ei) should be fed to the raw materials industry plant (ANL), which output products (Ai) should be produced by the raw materials industry plant (ANL) from the input products (Ei), and at which times the output products (Ai) should be produced by the raw materials industry plant (ANL);
• specifying by the production planning system the future production planning data (Pi) to the automation system;
• receiving by a state monitoring system from the automation system and/or via sensor devices directly from the raw materials industry plant (ANL) measurement data (M) and/or data derived from the measurement data (M);
• determining from the measurement data (M) and/or data derived from the measurement data (M) previous states (Z1) of components of the raw materials industry plant (ANL) and furthermore, with additional utilizing of the future production planning data (Pi) or data derived from the future production planning data (Pi) determining future predicted states (Z1) of the components of the raw materials industry plant (ANL);
• receiving by a quality determination system different from the automation system the measurement data (M) and/or data derived from the measurement data (M) from the automation system and/or via the sensor devices directly from the raw materials industry plant (ANL);
• receiving by the quality determination system the previous and the future predicted states (Z1) of the components of the raw materials industry plant (ANL) from the state monitoring system and receiving the future production planning data (Pi) from the production planning system, and based on the foregoing, determining by the quality determination system states (Z2) of the output products (Ai) produced by the raw materials industry plant (ANL) and of the output products (Ai) to be produced, and/or determining by the quality determination system past and future states (Z3) of the raw materials industry plant (ANL) as a whole;
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• receiving, by a maintenance planning system, the previous and the future predicted states (Z1) of the components of the raw materials industry plant (ANL) from the state monitoring system and receiving the states (Z2) of the output products (Ai) produced by the raw materials industry plant (ANL) and the states of the output products (Ai) to be produced from the quality determination system and/or the past and future states (Z3) of the raw materials industry plant (ANL) as a whole;
• taking into account these data, determining maintenance planning data (W) for the raw materials industry plant (ANL) and/or receiving by the production planning system the previous and the future predicted states (Z1) of the components of the raw materials industry plant (ANL) from the state monitoring system and receiving from the quality determination system the states (Z2) of the output products (Ai) produced by the raw materials industry plant (ANL) and the output products (Ai) to be produced and/or past and future states (Z3) of the raw materials industry plant (ANL) as a whole, and taking this into account when determining the future production planning data (Pi);
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• wherein the future production planning data (Pi) determines limiting values to make the raw materials industry plant (ANL) to produce qualified the number of output products (Ai) based also on the maintenance planning data (W).