Advanced CIM techniques

The authors show how CIM techniques can be applied to meet the need for improving the quality and efficiency of rubber mixing facilities and to integrate existing procedures effectively into the CIM environment. The following topics are briefly covered: production scheduling and tracking; recipe management and maintenance; ingredient batch testing and quality control data collection; inventory management and tracking; accurate automatic and manual material dispensing/weighing; critical weight/ingredient/lot data collection; batch identification and tracking; critical mixer process control/data collection; alarming and logging of procedural and process deviations; operator procedure tracking; access security and validation; long-term data storage and management; data presentation and reporting; and the management information system link.<>