Preferred applications
To manufacture an end product, modern production control requires the combination of several processing steps. Particularly in the pharmaceutical industry, „packaged units“ need to work together to produce the final product. The Kastor process control system offers a solution which allows mapping of complex, multistage production processes. The workflow management software within the process control system makes it possible for this requirement to be met.
The workflow management system distributes the recipe ingredients to the areas making up the production system, coordinates the processing sequence and collects and stores the output data.
Function
The workflow can be defined within the Kastor master data management system, using a tree structure for the basic sequence of the production process. The individual production areas are defined down to the last parameter using the depth of the tree branch. Recipe ingredients from the parts list for weighing processes and parameters for controlling assemblies such as mixers, granulators or packing machines can be represented.
The complete workflow consisting of production sub-processes is divided up into job sections for processing. These can be pro-duced completely separately from each other at the predefined production location. The sequence in which the sections are processed can be defined in pre-production. The workflow management system ensures that interdependent production sections are only carried out in the order specified. This allows both parallel and sequential processes to combined in the workflow.
