Film Production Evaluation With Real-Time Process Correlation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current methods for evaluating and optimizing film production and further processing are inefficient, often resulting in suboptimal evaluations, high costs, and difficulty in quickly adjusting process parameters, leading to inadequate process reliability and stability.

Innovation Solution

A method and system that involve determining and correlating manufacturing and further processing process data across spatially separated devices, enabling real-time data transfer and evaluation to optimize film production and further processing, using communication networks for data exchange and analysis to improve process reliability and efficiency.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If samples are taken from production equipment for quality assurance testing, then manufacturing precision can be evaluated, but time is lost due to separate testing processes and spatial separation between production and evaluation

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvequality assurance evaluationVSAvoidtesting process time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines the manufacturing device and processing device into an integrated system where production and quality assurance testing occur in the same spatial and temporal context. Sensors and measurement devices are integrated directly into the production line, eliminating separate sampling and testing processes while maintaining measurement precision.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary quality assurance measurements during the manufacturing process itself rather than after completion. By integrating sensors that measure film properties in real-time during production, the system enables immediate detection and correction of defects before the manufacturing process concludes, reducing overall testing time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

2Measurement precision

If complex testing procedures are conducted to evaluate film production and further processing, then measurement precision improves, but device complexity and costs increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprocess evaluation accuracyVSAvoidtesting system complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The integrated system uses multi-functional devices that can perform both manufacturing operations and quality assurance measurements simultaneously. The same processing device that manipulates the film also incorporates sensors and measurement capabilities, eliminating the need for separate specialized testing equipment and reducing overall system complexity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The manufacturing device performs self-diagnosis and self-evaluation through integrated sensors and measurement systems. The system automatically monitors its own production process and quality parameters without requiring external complex testing apparatus, thereby reducing device complexity while maintaining measurement precision.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Adaptability or versatility

If film production and further processing are conducted at spatially separated locations, then manufacturing flexibility improves, but process reliability and stability deteriorate due to lack of real-time data correlation

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveproduction location flexibilityVSAvoidprocess stability
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a feedback system where measurement data from the processing device is transmitted back to the manufacturing device in real-time through a communication interface. This closed-loop feedback enables continuous monitoring and adjustment of process parameters across spatially separated locations, maintaining process reliability and stability despite geographical separation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

A communication interface and data transmission system serve as an intermediary between the manufacturing device and processing device. This intermediary enables real-time exchange of process data and control signals, correlating operations across spatially separated locations and ensuring process stability without requiring physical proximity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

4Device complexity

If traditional separate evaluation methods are used for manufacturing and further processing, then device complexity is reduced, but productivity decreases due to inability to quickly optimize process parameters

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesystem structureVSAvoidprocess optimization speed
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The integrated system enables continuous real-time data exchange and continuous process optimization between manufacturing and further processing operations. Rather than periodic or batch evaluations, the system continuously monitors and adjusts parameters based on live feedback, significantly increasing productivity through rapid adaptive optimization while maintaining manageable device complexity through standardized interfaces.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #20Continuity of useful action

Data Source

PatentEP3439848B1Method for evaluating at least one industrial process
Publication Date: 2024.10.09 WINDMOELLER & HOELSCHER GMBH
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AI summary

The invention relates to a method (100) for evaluating at least one industrial process for the film production of a film and/or for the further processing using the film, comprising at least one production device (20) which is operated for the production of the film, and at least one further processing device (30) which is operated for further processing using the film.