ADVANCED PROCESS DATA ANALYSIS AND ON-LINE EVALUATION FOR COMPUTER-AIDED MONITORING IN POLYMER FILM INDUSTRY
Modern polymer manufactures are confronted high costs of raw materials or energy, high technological complexi- ty, monthly changing production range, high quality require- ments, lack of machine workers’ knowledge on real-time man- agement. Polymeric films production control and monitoring systems use great arrays of production data and decentral- ized heterogeneous data storage devices and lack qualified machine workers and quality engineers. Within all the pro- duction data only 5% of manufacturing data is used for error cause analysis due to missing of data source linkage. There- fore, the resulting conclusions about production, quality, and engineering surveillance are often biased. Increasing losses of money in the range of billions of dollars/euros are caused by the previously mentioned problems leading to material waste, customer claims for damages, safety issues, and high energy consumption. This work selects the above-mentioned topics with high influence on material waste to apply them to polymer film industry case study: material waste and process monitoring.