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Method and system for monitoring batch product manufacturing

  • US 7,761,180 B2
  • Filed: 02/25/2009
  • Issued: 07/20/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2003
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A product flow monitoring system comprising:

  • a flow model, encoded on a computer-readable medium, that models food product flow in a physical plant and that comprises;

    a plurality of representations of units of the physical plant that are configured to process a food product;

    a plurality of associations that indicate potential food product flow from a source unit of the plant to a target unit of the plant; and

    phase data associated with at least some of the units, wherein the phase data comprises phase changes during start and stop of food product flows;

    a data collection system that collects phase information from at least some of the units of the physical plant, wherein at least a portion of the phase information gets stored as phase data of the flow model; and

    a food product flow component that determines food product flow by using the flow model and the phase data.

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