Design Support of Reaction and Compounding Extruders

This section describes the different dimensions of integration inside the plastics processing domain as well as cross-organizational integration and collaboration issues. The presented results range from work process modeling up to technical process analysis for the design of compounding extruders in the chemical engineering context. Standard practices for the design of polymer compounding extruders were analyzed and afterwards formalized in cooperation with subproject I1 using methods and tools developed and used in the CRC 476. Fragments of these workflows were redesigned using innovative informatics functionality provided by the CRC’s B-projects which provided the novel tool functionality. Exemplarily, the extruder simulation tool MOREX was integrated with the process-integrated modeling environment PRIME and coupled with BEMflow. The distributed analysis of 3D simulation results using KOMPAKT and TRAMP was developed, and a scenario showing the integration of the project management system AHEAD with the plastics engineering design tools was designed participatively. Another focus was set on an integrated visualization environment using Virtual Reality technology for different data from a number of simulation tools.