Distributed Circular Manufacturing Control for Secure Production Optimization
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current production processes, especially in recycling, face challenges in efficiently controlling and optimizing production across multiple independent entities to achieve technical goals such as reducing waste and energy consumption, due to the complexity of logistics and technical parameters.
Innovation Solution
An apparatus that provides expected production data, receives pre-production data from independent entities, determines optimized production based on both data sets, and sends control signals to optimize the production process, utilizing optimization algorithms and tokens to quantify goal fulfillment.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If production processes are distributed across multiple independent entities, then productivity and flexibility are improved, but device complexity and difficulty of controlling increase
Solution Approach 1:
The production system is divided into multiple independent production entities, each capable of autonomous operation. This segmentation allows parallel production across entities while maintaining individual control, resolving the contradiction by enabling productivity improvement through distribution while managing complexity through modular independence
Solution Approach 2:
The control system implements universal data structures and communication protocols that work across all production entities. This multi-functionality allows the same control framework to manage diverse entities, reducing the complexity burden of distribution while maintaining productivity gains
2Adaptability or versatility
If production processes are distributed across multiple independent entities, then adaptability is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The control system implements continuous feedback loops that monitor production parameters across all entities and automatically adjust operations. This feedback mechanism maintains ease of operation by automating coordination while preserving adaptability through real-time response to changing conditions
Solution Approach 2:
A central control system acts as an intermediary between independent production entities, coordinating their operations without requiring direct complex interactions between entities. This mediator approach simplifies operation while maintaining the adaptability benefits of distributed production
3Manufacturing precision
If optimization is based on complete production data including pre-production data, then manufacturing precision is improved, but loss of information increases due to data security requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts only the essential optimization-relevant parameters from complete production data while leaving sensitive information excluded. This extraction approach enables manufacturing precision improvement through targeted data usage while minimizing information loss by not requiring transmission or storage of sensitive data
Solution Approach 2:
Different levels of data access and processing quality are applied to different entities based on their needs and security requirements. This local quality approach allows optimization calculations to use high-precision data where needed while maintaining data security restrictions elsewhere, resolving the contradiction between precision and information loss
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AI summary
The invention refers to an apparatus for controlling a production process of a product produced from a plurality of pre-products, in particular, in a recycling process. A providing unit provides expected production data indicative of the pre-products and of production parameters expected for the production of the product. A receiving unit receives for each expected pre-product pre-production data from a plurality of independent production entities. An optimization unit determines an optimized production of the product with respect to a predetermined goal related to one or more pre-production parameters based on the production data and the pre-production data. A control unit provides control signals for controlling the production of the product based on the determined optimized production.