Process Optimization

TL;DR for operators Chemical-process optimisation does not usually fail because nobody has heard of optimisation. It fails earlier, in the less glamorous swamp where someone has to decide what operating ranges are even allowed. Temperatures, separator conditions, pressure drops, utility trade-offs, convergence behaviour, equipment limits: all the tedious things that make optimisation useful and prevent it from becoming a very fast route to nonsense. ...

TL;DR for operators Factory optimisation usually begins with a polite fiction: if the process makes good parts, the business must be doing well. Injection molding knows better. A technically acceptable part can still be produced at the wrong pressure, at the wrong cycle time, during the wrong electricity tariff window, with just enough mold wear to make the accountant quietly unhappy. ...