Practical Batch Process Management

Mike is an accomplished engineer and well known consultant in Southern Africa who has worked in the instrumentation and control world for most of his professional life. He commenced his career in the writing and installation of real time software ranging from Fortran CAD to SCADA systems. He has also worked as an editor of a well known Instrumentation and Control magazine and built it into the leading magazine of its class. Mike recently led a team that designed and engineered a large batch management and control system for a multimillion dollar blue-chip consumer products plant and this has now been successfully running for 12 months. He is an entertaining and knowledgeable instructor with an interest in applying practical proven techniques to problems facing today's engineers and technicians working in this area of expertise. He has presented extensively on IDC Technologies range of Batch Management courses. Jawahar’s focus over the past few years has been in the project planning, engineering and commissioning of process control systems and instrumentation systems for two 1 Mtpa cement plants from conceptual stage to production. His experience has extended to installation of instrumentation to programming and configuration of the PLC’s and distributed control systems. He has collaborated in the writing of a number of the IDC Technologies books with solid expertise in Motion Control, alarm management, SCADA systems and latterly Distributed Control Systems.

• 1 Outline and objectives2 Physical models 3 Process models, actions, operations and stages4 Procedural models 5 Introduction to recipes 6 Batch manufacturing basics 7 Batch and sequence programming fundamentals 8 Practical techniques in sequence control design 9 Operator and supervisor interface 10 Batch management issues 11 Batch control technologies 12 Practical software project planning and implementation GlossaryIndex