Volatile markets with strongly fluctuating customer demand and uncertainties in the global supply chain challenge manufacturing companies increasing complexity. A flexible, reconfigurable production system like concept of Modular Production by Kern is one way to meet these challenges at same time produce more efficiently. Such plants can quickly adapt new demands, but also come challenging requ...

We address a novel integrated maintenance and production scheduling problem in a multi-machine and multi-period production system, considering maintenance as a long-term decision. Deterioration of machines over time decreases production capacity. Since maintenance activities improve machine conditions, increasing production capacity, but also take time that cannot be used for production, the ch...

this paper presents a theoretical approach to implementation of the “multi-realization of nonlinear mimo systems”. this method aims to find state-variable realization for a set of systems, sharing as many parameters as possible. in this paper a special nonlinear multi-realization problem, namely the multi-realization of feedback linearizable nonlinear systems is considered and an algorithm for ...

This paper briefly summarizes that during the depressurization operation in subsea pipeline for maintenance or prevention of hydrate formation, because flare knock-out drum pump is designed ambient temperature, and cannot deal with low temperature fluid process. Therefore, needs to be heated meet requirement pump. In order avoid volume exceeding surge drum, concept multi stage innovatively prop...

The need for improving the operation and control of infrastructure systems has created a demand for optimization and control methods applicable in the area of complex networked systems operated by a multitude of actors in a setting of decentralized decision making. Because of the analogy between production systems and infrastructures, process systems engineering (PSE) approaches for optimizatio...