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      AE 4012 BS-EH
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Objective of the ME-DRP Concept

One of the difficulties in today's plant and installation designis caused by the ever increasing complexity of industrial and process installations which requires constant communication and cooperation of the many different engineering faculties involved.

The example of a pump required as one component of a larger control system illustrates the problem:
• - The process engineer defines in the basic technical specification that a pump of certain technical characteristics is required
• - The manufacturer and supplier of the pump adjusts and sets thedevice to these requirements
• - The electrotechnical engineer defines the required characteristics of the drive for the pump
• - The process control engineer integrates the pump and the drive in the overall automation scheme

Each of these different engineering fields applies its own methods and tools to optimize the every-day procedures in the planning and design of electrical equipment and systems. Although each department is involved in the design of the same object (in our example: the pump), they all work isolated from each other without knowing of or communicating about the individual methods used. This is the starting point for the huge optimization potential offered by a so-called object server. Object servers are at the basis of the computer-aided engineering concept ME-DRP. Another reason for us to develop the ME-DRP engineering tool was the fact that a considerable portion (10 to 15%) of the total cost for a complete design and installtion project is due to the availability - or lack - of knowledgebase information. The management of engineering companies is increasingly aware of the fact that the information content of an engineering project is a synonyme for money or costs. As a result, engineering companies have started introducing maintenance and operations management systems. However, these tools usually do not integrate the actual plant and process data collected during plant design and installation. In every-day engineering life this means that there is still a rupture in the information flow between plant design and plant maintenance. In most cases, new detail work is required to collect this information (i.e., plant and process data) a second time and transfer it manually to the systems that need it.

ME-4012 Consistent Computer-Aided Engineering ME-DRP 5 Flyer 1 ME-DRP 5 Flyer 2

 

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