Real-Time MES Process Instruction Translation System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) in regulated industries like pharmaceuticals face challenges in operating in multi-language environments due to complex validation workflows required for translated process instructions, often necessitating the use of a single language or duplicating instructions, which is time-consuming and inefficient.
Innovation Solution
A method and system for automatically translating process instructions in real-time within an MES, where instructions are designed and validated in a single language and then translated into other languages using a database-driven approach, allowing for real-time display without altering the validated instructions, thus avoiding complex validation workflows.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If process instructions are translated into multiple languages for international operations, then the MES can operate in multi-language contexts, but complex validation workflows are required for each translated version
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the validation process from the translation process. Only the original process instructions in the first language undergo full validation, while translated versions in other languages are generated separately without requiring full validation workflows. This segmentation allows multi-language operation while avoiding repeated validation complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs validation in advance on the original process instructions in the first language before translation occurs. This preliminary validation ensures that the source content is validated, and subsequent translations inherit this validation status without requiring additional validation workflows, thus enabling multi-language operation with reduced complexity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If process instructions are duplicated in multiple languages, then the MES can operate in different languages, but the process becomes time-consuming and inefficient
Solution Approach 1:
The system creates translated copies of validated process instructions from the first language to other languages using automated translation. These copies are generated on-demand without requiring manual duplication and separate validation for each language version, significantly improving setup efficiency while maintaining multi-language operation capability.
Solution Approach 2:
Validation is performed in advance on the original instructions before translation and duplication. This preliminary validation eliminates the need for repeated validation during duplication, making the multi-language setup process much faster and more efficient.
3Reliability
If process instructions are validated in each language separately, then regulatory compliance is ensured, but the process is extremely time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs validation in advance on the original process instructions in the first language before translation occurs. This preliminary validation ensures regulatory compliance for the source content, and translated versions inherit this validation status, eliminating the need for time-consuming separate validation in each language while maintaining compliance reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements a feedback mechanism where the validation status of the original process instructions is carried forward to translated versions. This feedback approach ensures that validated content remains compliant across languages without requiring redundant validation processes, significantly reducing validation time while maintaining reliability.
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AI summary
A method and system automatically translate process instructions. In the method, a process instruction is received in a first language that different from a second language being the operating language of the manufacturing execution system (MES). A text of the received process instruction is extracted in real time by a processing unit using an extraction algorithm. The method continues with searching and finding in real time in a database a translation of the extracted text into the second language. The database includes for all texts of all process instructions expressed in the first language, a translation of said texts into the second language. The texts in the first language and their corresponding translation are preferentially organized in a dictionary. Further, creating a process instruction in the second language from the found text in the second language and automatically displaying in real time the process instruction in the second language.