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[ Process design ]
Definition
Process design in industry helps to improve decision-making in real time (production) and in the future (optimisation).
The aims of process design are:
- Adoption by all stakeholders, especially operators, of the new digital interfaces for managing industrial tools (supervisors, MES, production indicators, dashboards, hypervisors, etc.) enhanced by digital capabilities (digital twin, AI, etc.);
- Real mastery of industrial processes and the inherent technologies by plant managers.
Process design covers several aspects :
- It is a new form of design;
- It contributes to change management;
- It involves modelling industrial processes.
Process design covers all areas of industrial processes, from operator Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs) to large-scale infrastructure supervision.
Process design enables alarms to be segregated by differentiating between sensor faults, initial conditions not met, equipment faults and process-related faults.
Process design covers all types of industrial processes: discrete, continuous, manufacturing, transformation or logistics.
Process design addresses the ergonomic (compliance with the ISA 101 standard) and aesthetic dimensions of the digital interfaces made available to humans.
Process design is aimed at operators and covers production operations; it is not aimed at maintainers or maintenance operations.
Process design models and synthesises industrial processes based on :
- Equipment data (or groups of equipment) in the EO domain;
- Procedures associated with production, nominal and alarm tasks;
- Any type of information from the IT domain (e.g. from ERP, environmental data, etc.);
- Information processed by AI models.
Process design models fall into several dynamic representation categories: 2D, 3D and synoptic.
These models are based on the state of the art in the representation of technical systems from a structural point of view, from a data flow point of view and from a user point of view (UX/UI).
This modelling of industrial processes is achieved by sharing them with operators and their management, and the method used is co-design with all stakeholders.
Ultimately, process design creates new ‘states of the art’ (creation and specifications) for new industrial processes enhanced by digitisation.
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