Product transfer between plants using historical process data

Abstract Based on the concepts laid out in an earlier article (Jaeckle and MacGregor, 1998), this paper defines the problem of moving the production of a particular product grade from a plant A to another plant B when both plants have already produced a similar range of grades. Since the two plants may differ in size, configurations, and so on, the process conditions required to produce any given product grade may be very different in the two …