Optimizing and Reducing Cleaning Production Loss in Pharma, Agrochemical and Specialty Chemical Companies Using a New Expert System.

Pharmaceutical, Biopharmaceutical, Agrochemical and Specialty chemical companies make many different products in their plants. This is true both for the active ingredient stages as well as the secondary of formulation processing. Cleaning and set up between products is critical and reduce productivity time up to 50% in some cases. The presentation will show the critical areas important in the modelling development in this expert system and how it will aid companies in scheduling their productions to reduce cleaning time and to reduce issues with cleaning.