US Patent Issued to SMS group on April 7 for "System and method for controlling a production plant consisting of a plurality of plant parts, in particular a production plant for producing industrial goods such as metallic semi-finished products" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,352, issued on April 7, was assigned to SMS group GmbH (Dusseldorf, Germany).

"System and method for controlling a production plant consisting of a plurality of plant parts, in particular a production plant for producing industrial goods such as metallic semi-finished products" was invented by Carsten Andreas Klein (Dusseldorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for controlling a production plant includes a plant automation unit for monitoring and control of the production process within the production plant. A production planning system has information concerning the products to be produced. A model generator generates ...