US 2024/0160187 A1 · OPTIMIZING MANUFACTURING PLANT DEVICES

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, that can optimize a manufacturing plant's operations and/or production based on simulations that utilize information about the current and forthcoming manufacturing conditions to determine the optimal operational characteristics for the different plant devices. Methods may include obtaining, using data from a set of sensors, a set of current operational characteristics for multiple plant devices in a plant. Multiple manufacturing scenarios can be simulated using different sets of operational characteristics for plant devices in which at least one operational characteristic from the set of current operational characteristics is varied. A first manufacturing scenario can be determined that satisfies overall operational parameter(s) for one or more plant devices or for the whole manufacturing plant. Setting(s) of one or more plant devices can be adjusted based on a set of operational characteristics corresponding to the first manufacturing scenario.

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Dependent claims

A computer implemented method, comprising:

obtaining, using data from a set of sensors, a set of current operational characteristics for a plurality of plant devices in a manufacturing plant;
simulating a plurality of manufacturing scenarios using different sets of operational characteristics for plant devices in which at least one operational characteristic from the set of current operational characteristics is varied;
determining, from among the simulated manufacturing scenarios, a first manufacturing scenario that satisfies one or more overall operational parameters for one or more plant devices or for the manufacturing plant as a whole;
and
adjusting one or more settings of one or more plant devices based on a set of operational characteristics corresponding to the first manufacturing scenario.

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A system, comprising:

one or more memory devices storing instructions;
and
one or more data processing apparatus that are configured to interact with the one or more memory devices, and upon execution of the instructions, perform operations including:
obtaining, using data from a set of sensors, a set of current operational characteristics for a plurality of plant devices in a manufacturing plant;
simulating a plurality of manufacturing scenarios using different sets of operational characteristics for plant devices in which at least one operational characteristic from the set of current operational characteristics is varied;
determining, from among the simulated manufacturing scenarios, a first manufacturing scenario that satisfies one or more overall operational parameters for one or more plant devices or for the manufacturing plant as a whole;
and
adjusting one or more settings of one or more plant devices based on a set of operational characteristics corresponding to the first manufacturing scenario.

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A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by one or more data processing apparatus, cause the one or more data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising:

obtaining, using data from a set of sensors, a set of current operational characteristics for a plurality of plant devices in a manufacturing plant;
simulating a plurality of manufacturing scenarios using different sets of operational characteristics for plant devices in which at least one operational characteristic from the set of current operational characteristics is varied;
determining, from among the simulated manufacturing scenarios, a first manufacturing scenario that satisfies one or more overall operational parameters for one or more plant devices or for the manufacturing plant as a whole;
and
adjusting one or more settings of one or more plant devices based on a set of operational characteristics corresponding to the first manufacturing scenario.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Optimizing manufacturing plant devices

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Optimizing manufacturing plant devices

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Abstract

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