Tunnel Pasteurizer Remote Control via External Data Processing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Optimizing tunnel pasteurizers requires significant experience and qualified personnel, making it difficult to quickly adjust operations or manage consumables efficiently after installation, maintenance, or production changes.
Innovation Solution
A tunnel pasteurizer with integrated sensors for monitoring consumable and machine parameters, a data output for exporting measurement data, a data input for importing control data, and a programmable logic controller for automated control, allowing for central processing and prediction of production processes through a cross-machine monitoring system.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If centralized external processing of measurement data and generation of control data is implemented, then optimization speed and efficiency improve, but system complexity and infrastructure requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the data processing and control generation functions from the tunnel pasteurizer itself and relocates them to an external centralized system. Sensors remain at the pasteurizer to collect measurement data, but the complex analysis, prediction algorithms, and control data generation are performed externally, separating monitoring functions from control functions to enable faster optimization without overcomplicating the pasteurizer hardware.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an external centralized system as an intermediary between the sensors at the tunnel pasteurizer and the control actuators. This intermediary processes measurement data, generates predictions about future production processes, and creates control data that is then sent back to the pasteurizer, enabling optimized control without direct complex processing at the pasteurizer itself.
2Measurement precision
If more sensors and monitoring parameters are integrated, then measurement precision and control accuracy improve, but device complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal external data processing system that can handle multiple types of measurement data from various sensors (temperature, humidity, consumption parameters, machine parameters) through a single centralized platform. This multi-functional approach allows comprehensive monitoring of all pasteurizer parameters without requiring separate complex processing systems for each sensor type, thereby improving measurement precision while controlling overall system complexity.
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AI summary
A tunnel pasteurizer for pasteurization of filling products and a method for the monitoring and control thereof are described. The tunnel pasteurizer comprises sensors for locally monitoring at least one consumable parameter and at least one machine parameter relating to the transport and/or the temperature control of the filling products, a data output for transmitting measurement data obtained by such sensor monitoring from the tunnel pasteurizer, and at least one data input for receiving external control data for controlling the tunnel pasteurizer. By means of the measurement data and the received control data, the tunnel pasteurizer can be controlled in a programmed manner and enables remote-controlled optimization of pasteurization and maintenance processes.