Real-time monitoring of continuous automated production

1.  ntroduction to production

In the process of production engineering in the petrochemical industry, the production process parameters determine the quality of the product. Adjusting the process parameters can change the product quality value. The production process parameters are closely related to the product quality. For a long time, a large number of production process parameters and product quality data have been stored in their respective databases.

 

2. Data collection of process parameters and product quality values

 

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Figure 1: fishbone diagram of production process control

 

Description: 1. Product quality affected by 5 process parameters in the figure       

2. 1.  t2, t3, t4 and t5 are the time that the material acts on a certain part of the material when the material flows in the pipeline.   t6 is the time when the product quality analysis is completed. 

 

2. 2. The red line segment is a section of material flowing in the pipeline.

During the production process, the material (the red part in Figure 1) flows in the pipeline. When it flows to the process parameter 1, record the process parameter value v1 at t1, and when it flows to the process parameter 2, record the time t2 The process parameter value v2 is collected, so as to collect the process parameter values ​​(v1, v2, v3, v4 and v5) at 5 different times; when t6 after a period of time, this part of the production is completed (the red part in Figure 1) , the product quality analysis result value (r) is also collected into its own database. Of course, the properties of the raw materials will also affect the quality of the products, so the property v0 of the raw materials must be collected, so that the complete process parameters and quality values ​​(v0, v1, v2, v3, v4, v5 and r) are collected, that is, a Complete sample.

In the long-term production, many such data samples were collected from the database, in which the process parameter values ​​(v0, v1, v2, v3, v4 and v5) were stored in the production real-time database system, and the quality values ​​were stored in the product quality database system.

 

3. Data mining construction method and real-time  measurement quality

We carry out data mining on the production real-time database system and product quality database system, and call out the process parameter values ​​and quality values ​​(as shown in Figure 2).

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Figure 2: Block diagram of the product quality system for process parameter estimation

 

3. 1.  Data matching: Because the process parameter data and product quality data are stored in different database systems, it is necessary to find the process parameter data and product quality data according to the data collection time, and match them into a complete sample. Lots of samples.

 

3. 2. Data screening: After the data is matched, some data will appear outliers or do not conform to actual laws for some reason, so these data should be eliminated.

 

3. 3. Weight configuration:

 

2. 3. 1. The process parameters have different effects on the quality value, so different weights should be given to the process parameters according to the actual influence.

 

3. 3. 2  Among each process parameter, some are temperature, some are pressure, and some are flow, so their order of magnitude (value range) is also different, which affects the quality value during calculation. It is small, but the actual situation is not necessarily the case, and the corresponding weights should be given to different process parameters to eliminate the undue influence of the order of magnitude on the quality calculation.

 

4. Create algorithm: comprehensively use metrology, statistics and other methods to establish the relationship algorithm between process parameters and quality.

 

5. Calculation by algorithm: When a set of real-time process parameters is collected according to the method of process parameter collection, the established method can be used to calculate the real-time product quality value.

3. Real time monitoring of product quality of production device

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Figure 3: Real-time data on product quality of production units

 

The picture shows two quality real-time detection systems, and the curve is the real-time quality change.

 

4. Advantages and disadvantages of real-time monitoring system

4.1. In the production process, the prediction of product quality.

 

4.1.1. The current situation of petrochemical production is manual inspection of product quality. Taking the production process in Figure 1 as an example, when the material is controlled by 5 process parameters at t5, the control is over, and the product quality has been determined, but the product cannot be known yet. What is the quality data? The material has to go through the pipeline to the sampling port (t6), and then be manually sampled to the laboratory for inspection. It usually takes a period of time to get the results.

 

4.1.2. After using the real-time monitoring system for the quality of the production device, when the material passes through the process parameter 5 at t5, the product quality result can be calculated in time, which allows us to predict the quality of the product in advance. If there is a quality problem, it can be adjusted in advance to make Product quality meets production requirements.

 

4.1.3. After using the real-time monitoring system for the quality of production equipment, it can be done once in a few minutes, the frequency of measurement is greatly increased, the blind spot of quality inspection is eliminated, and the product quality is more effectively guaranteed.

 

4.2. Not only can monitor the quality, but also monitor whether the factors affecting the quality (including control points and display points) exceed the limit.

 

4.3. Reduce the frequency of manual inspection of product quality and reduce product inspection costs.

 

4.4. Production safety

 

4.4.1. The materials are flammable and explosive, and there is no need to take samples for inspection, so they are safe and environmentally friendly.

 

4.4.2. There is no interference to the production device, and the production of the device is not affected.

4.4.3. The only method under construction is to read the database. In normal use, the process parameters of the production device are directly introduced to measure the quality, so the load of the database server will not be increased.

 

 4.5. Regularly perform manual product quality inspections in order to correct the system and improve the algorithm.

 

5. Required facilities

 

5.1. A computer is placed in the production control room and transmits the quality data to the management department.

 

5.2. Connect to the corresponding database through the network.

 

5.3. Connect the output terminal of the production process parameters through the network.