Production Planning for Food Transformation Processes

The higher-level control layer presented in Chap. 4 can be used to improve the operation of a food processing plant from two different perspectives: On the one hand, it can be used to decide which product is most profitable to produce given the current features of the raw inputs; on the other hand, it can provide which values of the process variables can be used to produce the target product so that a certain objective function is optimized.