Patent ID: 8977527
Filing Date: 2015-03-10
Classification: C09B,G05B,G06F,G09B

Abstract:
1. A method for automatically providing process simulation models from piping and instrumentation diagrams for a process, the method comprising: acquiring structured data objects representing, in electronic form, a piping and instrumentation diagram of a process, the structured data objects including an interface to process control loops, said structured data objects being used as input data for forming a process simulation model; generating a virtual control system from the piping and instrumentation diagram of a process, said virtual control system comprising one or more virtual control system I/O components; acquiring piping data representing, in electronic form, the piping and instrumentation diagram of a process, the piping and instrumentation diagram comprising connections to the virtual control system I/O components and among the structured data objects; translating the structured data objects representing process objects in the piping and instrumentation diagram into process simulation model objects, the structured data objects representing the process objects other than the control system I/O components, the translating being performed automatically using predefined mapping definitions and conversion functions, and wherein the predefined mapping definitions and conversion functions include a predefined conversion function comprising: assigning a connection between the destination process simulation model object and at least one of the virtual control system I/O components based on the piping data, the assigning being performed automatically, by a computing device, using predefined rules, the assigning comprising: