Title :
Systematic interdisciplinary reuse within the engineering of automated plants
Author :
Schrock, Sebastian ; Fay, Alexander ; Jager, Tobias
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Autom. Technol., Helmut-Schmidt-Univ., Hamburg, Germany
Abstract :
The engineering of automated plants is a process in which a multitude of different disciplines is involved. These disciplines vary by the type of plant, but do mostly work in a sequential way. Therefore the work of each discipline is based on the results of the previous discipline. As a consequence, an optimization of the engineering is mostly done by a single discipline, not taking the work of the previous or subsequent disciplines into account. When engineering a complex system, like an automated plant, this approach is not sufficient. Within this paper, a methodology for the engineering of automated plants is presented, which is focused on the application of interdisciplinary reusable components. Therefore interdisciplinary and configurable reusable components are developed in a project-independent part and applied within a project-dependent part, where the plant is engineered according to the customer requirements. This methodology is based in common reuse-approaches and includes approaches of different domains, such as the software or process engineering. The presented methodology has been validated by the engineering data of a desalination plant.
Keywords :
desalination; optimisation; software reusability; automated plant engineering; desalination plant; engineering optimization; project-dependent part; project-independent part; systematic interdisciplinary reuse; Automation; Computational modeling; Desalination; Industries; Mathematical model; Organizations; Systematics; automated plants; engineering; feature model; interdisciplinary reuse; variability;
Conference_Titel :
Systems Conference (SysCon), 2015 9th Annual IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Vancouver, BC
DOI :
10.1109/SYSCON.2015.7116802