TY - CONF A1 - Maiwald, Michael T1 - Fully integrated and intelligently networked systems and processes - Perspective: Smart sensors, actuators and communication N2 - Companies in the chemical industry have to tread new paths in order to survive successfully in a changed environment. This includes, in particular, the potential of digital technologies. The full integration and intelligent networking of systems and processes is making slow progress. This talk is a tribute to the field level. It wants to encourage a more holistic approach to the digitalisation of the process industry based on smart sensors, actuators and communication and provides information on current technical perspectives, such as the "one-network paradigm", ad-hoc networking, edge computing, FPGAs, virtual machines or blockchain. These give smart sensors, actuators and communication a completely new perspective. T2 - 5th European Conference on Process Analytics and Control Technology - EuroPACT 2021 CY - Online meeting DA - 15.11.2021 KW - Process Analytical Technology KW - Smart Sensors KW - Digital transformation KW - Industry 4.0 KW - EuroPact KW - Distributed Networks PY - 2021 UR - https://dechema.de/europact2021.html AN - OPUS4-53754 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Maiwald, Michael T1 - Integrated and networked systems and processes – A perspective for digital transformation of our chemical and pharmaceutical production N2 - Chemical and pharmaceutical companies have to find new paths to survive successfully in a changing environment, while also finding more flexible ways of product and process development to bring their products to market more quickly – especially high-quality high-end products like fine chemicals or pharmaceuticals. The potential of digital technologies belongs to these. A current approach uses flexible and modular chemical production units, which can produce different high-quality products using multi-purpose equipment with short downtimes between campaigns and reduce the time to market of new products. At the same time, we need to move towards knowledge-based production that takes into account all essential equipment, process and control data from plants and laboratories and makes valuable expertise available and transferable. The potential of data from production together with its contextual information is often not yet consistently used today for a comprehensive understanding of production. By giving examples this paper outlines a possible more holistic approach to digitalisation and the use of machine-based methods in the production of specialty chemicals and pharmaceuticals through the introduction of integrated and networked systems and processes. T2 - GDCh Science Forum 2021 - GDCh Wissenschaftsforum 2021 CY - Online meeting DA - 29.08.2021 KW - Process analytical technology KW - Online NMR spectroscopy KW - Process industry KW - Industry 4.0 KW - Digital transformation KW - Autonomous chemistry PY - 2021 AN - OPUS4-53171 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Maiwald, Michael T1 - Integrated and Networked Systems and Processes—A Perspective for Digital Transformation in Thermal Process Engineering N2 - Separation technology as a sub-discipline of thermal process engineering is one of the most critical steps in the production of chemicals, essential for the quality of intermediate and end products. The discipline comprises the construction of facilities that convert raw materials into value-added products along the value chain. Conversions typically take place in repeated reaction and separation steps—either in batch or continuous processes. The end products are the result of several production and separation steps that are not only sequentially linked, but also include the treatment of unused raw materials, by-products and wastes. Production processes in the process industry are particularly susceptible to fluctuations in raw materials and other influences affecting product quality. This is a challenge, despite increasing fluctuations, to deliver targeted quality and simultaneously meet the increasing dynamics of the market, at least for high value fine chemicals. In order to survive successfully in a changed environment, chemical companies must tread new paths. This includes the potential of digital technologies. The full integration and intelligent networking of systems and processes is progressing hesitantly. This contribution aims to encourage a more holistic approach to the digitalization in thermal process engineering by introduction of integrated and networked systems and processes. KW - Smarter Sensor KW - Digitalisation KW - Digital transformation KW - Process Industry KW - Thermal Process Engineering KW - Digital Twins PY - 2020 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-504964 DO - https://doi.org/10.3390/chemengineering4010015 SN - 2305-7084 VL - 4 IS - 15 SP - 1 EP - 9 PB - MDPI CY - Basel AN - OPUS4-50496 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -