IP Library Granted Patent US 12,086,739
Granted Patent B2
US 12,086,739 · App. 16/986,239 · Granted Sep 10, 2024

CIP wash summary and library

Inventors: Joseph P. Curran (Mahtomedi, MN); Finn Jensen (Arden, DK); Jonathan Kingsbury (Apple Valley, MN); Paul Schacht (Oakdale, MN); Juli Young (Farmington, MN); James Krohn (Oakdale, MN)
Assignee: Ecolab USA, Inc.
G06Q10/0631G06Q10/0633
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Patent No.
US 12,086,739
App. No.
16/986,239
Granted
Sep 10, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

One embodiment includes a method for monitoring a CIP process previously performed. The method includes accessing CIP process data stored in a CIP library. The CIP process data includes CIP phase data associated with a plurality of CIP phases in the CIP process previously performed, equipment data associated with objects used in the CIP process during one or more of the CIP phases, and consumable data associated with consumables consumed by corresponding equipment in the CIP process. In addition, the method includes displaying at least a portion of the CIP process data, and providing a graphical user interface. The graphical user interface is configured to: organize the CIP process data into at least one of (i) a plurality of CIP phases or (ii) consumable data, and sort equipment data according to one or more of the plurality of corresponding CIP phases or corresponding consumables.

Claims (14)

1. A method for monitoring a clean-in-place (CIP) process comprising two or more CIP phases previously performed, the method comprising:

measuring, using a plurality of sensors of a CIP system, data during each CIP phase of each CIP process of a plurality of CIP processes to define a plurality of CIP data sets, each CIP data set of the plurality of CIP data sets being associated with a respective CIP process of the plurality of CIP processes, wherein each CIP phase comprises one of a rinse phase, an alkaline wash, an acid sanitize, a rinse recovery, a chemical recovery, and a sterilization, each CIP data set including data measured by the plurality of sensors for each CIP phase of the associated CIP process comprising a total CIP process duration, wherein each CIP data set further includes at least one of a total amount of consumables used in the associated CIP process, a CIP system name, a CIP line name, a name of an object upon which the associated CIP process is carried out, and a CIP recipe used, wherein at least one of the plurality of sensors is positioned in each of a water line used in one or more of the two or different CIP phases and in each chemistry line of a plurality of chemistry lines of the CIP system;

controlling, by a controller comprising one or more programmable processors, each CIP phase of each CIP process of the plurality of CIP processes;

controlling, by the controller, equipment used to perform each CIP process of the plurality of CIP processes;

storing, using the one or more programmable processors, the plurality of CIP data sets in a CIP library;

accessing, using the one or more programmable processors, the plurality of CIP data sets stored in the CIP library;

displaying, using the one or more programmable processors, at least a portion of the plurality of CIP data sets; and

providing, using the one or more programmable processors, a graphical user interface configured to:

organize the CIP data sets of the plurality of CIP data sets process data into at least one of: (i) a plurality of CIP phases or (ii) consumable data, and

sort equipment data according to one or more of the plurality of corresponding CIP phases or corresponding consumables.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the graphical user interface is configured to organize the CIP process data into the plurality of CIP phases.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the graphical user interface is configured to associate consumable data corresponding to each of the organized plurality of CIP phases and display the consumable data corresponding to each of the organized plurality of CIP phases.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the graphical user interface is configured to sort equipment data according to corresponding consumables used by the equipment during the CIP process previously performed.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein displaying at least a portion of the CIP process data includes displaying an indication that an exception has been triggered based on a first data parameter included in the CIP process data for the CIP process previously performed being outside a first predetermined threshold for a value of the first data parameter.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 10, 2020
From: CURRAN, JOSEPH P.; JENSEN, FINN; KINGSBURY, JONATHAN; SCHACHT, PAUL; YOUNG, JULI; KROHN, JAMES
To: ECOLAB USA INC.
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Continuity (3)
Division 14818028 · Aug 4, 2015
Provisional Application 62038003 · Aug 15, 2014
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