Name of the participant: Julian Rahm
Description of the IT research project: A process engineering manufacturing specification is usually created in laboratory tests and is continuously developed and brought to production maturity. To ensure reproducible product quality, a recipe is created that describes the manufacturing process of the product in detail. However, the recipe and its process parameters must be scaled up, enriched and adapted when the product is transferred to the productive plant. The transfer of a recipe to the different levels, such as laboratory automation to a master or control recipe, is still a great challenge due to the different requirements and equipment of the respective environment. This is because the manual adaptation of process parameters and setpoints in the respective plants is based on empirical values and many secondary conditions that cannot always be uniformly mapped. This leads to lengthy running-in processes, which generate corresponding costs. Changes to process parameters or setpoints in the individual cycles and levels must also be transferred to all other recipes in order to ensure the consistency of all levels. In order to speed up this change process and make it traceable, and thus to be able to react more flexibly to market or customer requirements, this project adapts the roundtrip engineering concept known from software development to the above problem. With this, a network between the levels is created in order to be able to transfer changes into each corresponding recipe. This is to ensure the consistency of the individual recipes with each other over their entire life cycle or to create possibilities to restore them.
Software Campus partner: TU Dresden, Merck
Implementation period: April 2020 – March 2022