The ability to meet and verify achievement of customer specifications is a significant requirement for participation in the high value-added specialty plastics and chemicals businesses. This need is complicated when collecting process information from a semi-continuous manufacturing process. The current ability to monitor, collect and report conformance to customer specification is impeded by the lack of integrated product quality data with process information in a batch or campaign context.

Manufacturing Operations Systems (MOS) is a suite of applications which reside architecturally above the real-time process control system layer. The value proposition for this suite of applications is predicated on the time value of information collected in a batch context. .

The objective of the MOS suite of applications is to unify all relevant process and quality information in a batch context with minimal or no human intervention. By presenting this information in near real-time operations personnel have the knowledge to correct deviations from specification before costly downstream processing occurs.