The project ended formally on 31 Dec 2006. 

The HIPCON project was created with the idea of developing methodology and a prototype software-package that enables production management accounting for:

• Product quality
• Economical performance
• Environmental values

This is achieved in an integrated approach. It is expected that the future production need to go in this direction, partly due to the increased attention to environmental impact of industrial production. An integrated approach is to avoid sub-optimisation. The software package is a real-time software with an extensive functionality covering:

• Monitoring
• Advanced control  
• Simulation  
• Multi-objective optimisation

The combination of the wide range of functions accounting for product quality, economical and environmental values makes the HIPCON software package unique.

One of the main objectives for the project was to demonstrate the added value of implementing the software at real production processes in full scale. The case study plants in the project were SSAB Swedish Steel in Oxelösund and Henriksdal wastewater treatment plant situated in Stockholm. These companies have also contributed in an important way with real production issues for the project to work on and by generating real process data for modeling.

An Industrial Reference Group (IRG) has followed the project and has given very useful feed back throughout the project. For some of the industrial partners new projects have been initiated. In order to meet future demands on software upgrades, support etc the consortium has started the work on setting up a legal entity, with the main task to use the research results on the commercial market.

For a more detailed description of the project result click here to download the final HIPCON Report [pdf]. 

Also a brochure is available for a summarized presentation of the results, click here [pdf]. 

Click here to download the HIPCON fact sheet [two page pdf].