A Study of the Life Cycle Requirements for an Information Model of the Components that are Incorporated in Process Facilities

This paper reports the results of research that explores product modeling issues for components that are incorporated in process plant facilities. To understand the business and technical challenges inherent in the development of component information models, the project:

• Studies the business issues of information exchange and the life-cycle information requirements for the components that are installed in process plant facilities.

• Identifies engineering tasks and coordination requirements that an information model should support.

• Investigates standards development for component and product information models.

• Implements a test case that explores integration of a component information model with a task based process model to provide decision support.

The information model and component selection test case is developed for one component type. It integrates an explicit description of product data and a task based process in a component information model. This model provides support for analysis and evaluation of component selection in an intelligent engineering application.