Practical E-Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management

Appendix B

Model answers

B.1 Practical exercise 1

Tools at various levels

B.1.1 Opportunities

The following top level opportunities were identified for the PS plant:

• No process automation tools (PLC and SCADA) are used, all manufacturing is done manually.

• Batch processes are controlled manually.

• Scales are not integrated to any system, leading to duplicate data capturing.

• Security process is not integrated with anything.

• No integrated maintenance system in place (spares, resource planning, etc.).

• No historical real-time process data is available for analysis and optimization studies.

• QTL results are not available electronically ...