**5. A case study: Multiproduct batch plant**

The applicability of our approach will be demonstrated on the model of a multiproduct batch plant designed and built at the Process Control Laboratory of the University of Dortmund. The demonstration plant is relatively simple compared to industrial-scale plants, but poses complex control tasks. A detailed description of the plant can be found in [17].

In the following a brief description of the plant will be given. From the data given in production management systems a timed Petri-net model is built. With the help of a simulator/scheduler using different scheduling rules, different schedules can be achieved. At the end the results for the given problem are presented and compared with the results achieved with other techniques.
