Chemical Production

A system for improving a production process for manufacturing a chemical product at an industrial plant, the industrial plant comprising one or more computing units and a plurality of physically separated equipment zones, and the product being manufactured by processing, via the plurality equipment zones, at least one input material using the production process, wherein the system is configured to:

• provide, via an interface, an upstream object identifier comprising input material data;
• wherein the input material data is indicative of one or more properties of the input material,
• receive, at any of the computing units, real-time process data from one or more of the equipment zones;
• wherein the real-time process data comprises real-time process parameters and/or equipment operating conditions,
• determine, via any of the computing units, a subset of the real-time process data based on the upstream object identifier and a zone presence signal;
• wherein the zone presence signal indicates presence of the input material at a specific equipment zone during the production process,
• compute, via any of the computing units, at least one zone-specific performance parameter of the chemical product related to the upstream object identifier based on the subset of the real-time process data and historical data;
• determine, in response to at least one of the performance parameters, a target equipment zone where the input material and/or chemical product is to be sent.

A computer program, or a non-transitory computer readable medium storing the program, comprising instructions which, when executed by suitable one or more computing units, operatively coupled to a plurality of for equipment zones for manufacturing a chemical product at an industrial plant by processing least one input material using a production process, causes any of the computing units to:

• provide, via an interface, an upstream object identifier comprising input material data;
• wherein the input material data is indicative of one or more properties of the input material,
• receive real-time process data from one or more of the equipment zones;
• wherein the real-time process data comprises real-time process parameters and/or equipment operating conditions,
• determine a subset of the real-time process data based on the upstream object identifier and a zone presence signal;
• wherein the zone presence signal indicates presence of the input material at a specific equipment zone during the production process,
• compute at least one zone-specific performance parameter of the chemical product related to the upstream object identifier based on the subset of the real-time process data and historical data;
• determine, in response to at least one of the performance parameters, a target equipment zone where the input material and/or chemical product is to be sent.