23rd European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering

Intelligent Alarm System applied to Continuous Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

Anshu Gupta^a, Aran Giridhar^a, Ginataras V. Reklaitis^a and Venkat Venkatasubramanian^b,    ^aSchool of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA, ^bDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, New York City, NY, USA

Abstract

One of the important challenges in effective real time process management is the implementation of intelligent systems that can assist human operators in making supervisory control decisions, instead of simply sounding an alarm when process variables go out of range. Operator failures to exercise the appropriate mitigation actions often have an adverse effect on product quality, process safety, occupational health and ...