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Front End Engineering Software at Akzo Nobel Engineering

Plant Engineering Life Cycle 2005

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Akzo Nobel Organization

Board of Management

Corporate Staff

Chemicals BUsPharma BUs Coatings BUs

Engineering

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Akzo Nobel Engineering bv

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Engineering tools

The basics:

• Engineering calculations: various tools

• Document oriented CAD: AutoCAD

• 3D Design: PDMS

• Document Management

• Project Management

“Advanced”:

• Basic Engineering Tool: ???

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Basic Engineering Tools, a brief history

Development of Basic Engineering Tool prototype.1994

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B.E.S.T EU proposal by AE, ICI, DSM andRWTH Aachen with partner Zyqad Ltd.

Proposal rejected.

Zyqad fails project goals. Search for alternatives.

Requirements for Basic Engineering Tool identified.

Use of Aspen Zyqad at AE.1998

2003 Start Comos® PT Pilot

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To develop a To develop a tooltool for efficient process engineering for efficient process engineeringbased on the based on the reusablereusable storage of design solutions storage of design solutions

Public domain engineering knowledgeby RWTH Aachen (group of prof. Marquardt)

Complementary knowledge domainsby plant owners

easy to usedata orientedfront end (not detailed) engineeringinterface instead of implement

B.E.S.T Proposal (1996), project objective

easy to usedata orientedfront end (not detailed) engineeringinterface instead of implement

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Requirements (2003)

• easy to use (GUI + working methods)

• interfacing not implementing, data exchange

• supports best practices and common knowledge

• reusable

• workflow, many design disciplines, iterative approach

• design cases

• data oriented

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The Challenge of a Basic Engineering Tool

89.5 m³/hr82.3 °C

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ACME says:100 m³/hr

85 °C

Process Engineer Mechanical Engineer

Functional design(PFD)

Technical design(PID)

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Goal: desired data model and flow

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Experience with Comos® PT

• Comos® PT is a very versatile tool

• Customization is easy (if you know what you want)

• We still spent quite some time to adapt to our standards

• Innotec is eager to learn from its customers

• Innotec has proven to be a real partner

• Data oriented workflow requires a change in attitude

• Engineers all “need” their old school symbols and data sheets

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Concluding

What’s to be learned from out experience:

• Software tools only offer a basic infrastructure for supporting your workflow.

• Users still build their own data models, data sheets (1:1 old style), ISO symbols, etc.

• Data exchange between real life applications not standardized: did anyone say “STEP”?

Do we want to cooperate?

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Custom symbols, data sheets and lists