Approach for integrated simulation based on plant engineering data

Digital information management is becoming more and more important to increase the plant efficiency over the complete plant life cycle. In future a plant will be described fully electronically. With the help of simulation, this virtual plant can be made to behave realistically. Today, no single tool can handle the multi-domain simulation aspects of a process plant. On the other hand, creating simulation models is expensive. This paper shows an approach on how to automatically create plant simulation models by reusing plant engineering data and couple different simulation tools in a dynamic co-simulation framework. A case study shows the feasibility and efficiency of this simulation approach.