In this paper we present an overview of current status of control performance monitoring using minimum variance principles. Extensions to PID-achievable performance assessment, trade-oo between performance and robustness, and trade-oo between de-terministic and stochastic performance objectives are discussed. Future directions are pointed out for research and practice with regard to root-cause ...

this paper addresses the design of control charts for both variable ( x chart) andattribute (u and c charts) quality characteristics, when there is uncertainty about the processparameters or sample data. derived control charts are more flexible than the strict crisp case, dueto the ability of encompassing the effects of vagueness in form of the degree of expert’spresumption. we extend the use o...

Factory automation integrates systems from different disciplines for the purpose of controlling and managing production orders: production planning systems interact with recipe control at the plant management level, which in turn affects the machine and system control, ultimately resulting in control of the actual production process. This requires communication systems, which are suitable for t...

A key limitation in modern biology is the ability to rapidly identify genes underlying newly identified complex phenotypes. Genome wide association studies (GWAS) have become an increasingly important approach for dissecting natural variation by associating phenotypes with genotypes at a genome wide level. Recent work is showing that the Arabidopsis thaliana defense metabolite, allyl glucosinol...

The optimization of full-scale biogas plant operation is of great importance to make biomass a competitive source of renewable energy. The implementation of innovative control and optimization algorithms, such as Nonlinear Model Predictive Control, requires an online estimation of operating states of biogas plants. This state estimation allows for optimal control and operating decisions accordi...

One of main thrusts of modern plant operation is to improve the quality of online information in distributed control system (DCS). Accurate information about the current state of a process is paramount for plant monitoring and control. Unfortunately, process measurements are often corrupted by measurement noise. The presence of measurement noise not only prevents plant operators from identifyin...

While sophisticated systems for both process control and production planning enjoy a wide industrial acceptance, tools for batch process scheduling represent a serious gap in the fully automated batch plant. Despite over fifteen years of academic research in batch scheduling algorithms and Moore’s law increases in computing power, spreadsheets and calculators remain the state-of-the-art means f...