Control system for continuously optimizing resources in processes of a production line of the manufacturing industry

A control system for optimizing the consumption rates of basic raw materials in a production line of the manufacturing industry comprising a plurality of machines, comprising:

• a. selecting machines of said production line that have significant consumption of basic raw materials;
• b. equipping the machines selected in step a) with smart digital meters (SM) measuring and storing basic raw material consumption rates of said machines;
• c. defining variable operating parameters of the machines selected in step a) and their admissible variation ranges and collecting this data in a “work environment” (ENV) file;
• d. selecting which of the machines selected in step a) have mutual interactions that make their operation interdependent;
• e. defining admissible combinations of operating parameters of the machines selected in step d) and collecting this data in a “relationship in the production line” (POLICY) file;
• f. defining alert conditions of different level in relation to each of the limits defined in steps c) and e), i.e. ENV and POLICY files, and collect this data in an “alert conditions” (ALERT) file;
• g. feeding the data defined in steps c), e), f), as ENV, POLICY and ALERT files, to a machine learning algorithm and generating a target function, wherein a relationship between the consumption rates of said basic raw materials and the status of operating parameters of all the machines of said production line selected in step a) is defined;
• h. automatically optimize said target function using a RL algorithm, with or without an environment model, identifying the combinations of a set of operating parameters contained in the target function that allow to minimize the consumption rates of said basic raw materials;
• i. compare the operating parameters defined in step h) with the original operating parameters and identify the group of modified operating parameters;
• j. send instructions to those machines which are affected by the modified operating parameters to make said modified operating parameters operational in the production line.