Patent ID: 8677310

Claim:
A system facilitating design template creation, comprising: a processor; a non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer executable components and communicatively coupled to the processor to facilitate operation of the computer executable components, the computer executable components, comprising: an abstraction component configured to: analyze an engineering specification of an industrial process to identify: an industry specific layer, via an industry specific layer component, of the engineering specification that specifies one or more requirements specific to an industry in which the industrial process is implemented; a customer specific layer, via a customer specific layer component, of the engineering specification that specifies one or more requirements specific to a customer implementing the industrial process; an application specific layer, via an application specific layer component, of the engineering specification that specifies one or more requirements specific to an application of the industrial process; or a project specification layer, via a project specific layer component, of the engineering specification that specifies one or more requirements specific a project of the industrial process; and generate an abstracted engineering specification comprising the engineering specification without the one or more identified industry specific layer, customer specific layer, application specific layer, or project specific layer; and a design component configured to generate a design template based at least in part on the abstracted engineering specification.