Boosting Batch Performance
ECS was founded in 1977 to provide control and information system solutions, initially to the demanding aluminum manufacturing industry. Since then, the company has expanded to deliver batch and continuous process control solutions to a wide range of manufacturing companies. To date, we have delivered more than 4000 projects. After more than four decades of developing batch process control systems using a total process automation approach, we have the experience and expertise it takes to build powerful, high-performing plants that produce high-quality yields.
A list of approaches we have developed over 40 years, all designed to BOOST production performance and quality includes topics like (link these please) recipe version control, Improve cooking quality utilizing the lethality factor principles, material dosing genealogy, flexible and modular CIP and SIP Automation, automated procedures for manual processes, material storage management, weighing in dispensing, dosing materials based on their properties, leveraging ISA-88 Standards for Discrete Manufacturing, securing your intellectual property (recipes), materials and lot ID traceability, and reduce the execution and validation effort by standardizing.
S88 Builder® is a basic model-based process control system used specifically for equipment control in a batch or continuous process control system. Based on best practices and 40 years of experience, ECS developed S88 Builder® to be one common application for controlling any process cell. The model provides an extreme level of both consistency and flexibility for equipment control throughout a process. The consistent model optimizes your process control system for top performance and quality, which lowers production costs and increases equipment availability.
Key Benefits
- The unit panel turns operators into focused process managers with flexible live tiles for each unit equipment module
- Alert navigator draws operator attention to any unit held from processing for any reason
- Unit logs track operator actions and augment the electronic batch record
- Fast and easy configuration, in lieu of programming, delivers radically shorter schedules and extreme agility to implement new products
- Model backup is accomplished using standard SQL tools
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