CAPE-ModE

In part II, the global picture of the plant enterprise engineering environment (PEEE) is presented with brief description about each component. More details about the modeling environment (CAPE-ModE) are explained in this section. 

In Part IV, the mechanism of the proposed solution will be presented where integration with other components within PEEE will be explained in more details. This includes integration with the modeling environment (CAPE-ModE), RCM-based maintenance management system, fault detection system, design environment, and with operation support system. Case studies are selected from continuous chemical plant i.e. HDS plant, batch chemical plant i.e. PVC, and upstream end of oil refinery process to illustrate the proposed solution. 

CAPE-ModE It is the automated modeling environment that manage the model elements of the different models within the plant enterprise. 

Figure 5-2 CAPE-ModE Functional Analysis using Use Case Modeling...

Table 5-1 Broad Line Recommendations to Design CAPE-ModE...

Figure 5-3 shows the system architecture of the computer-aided plant enterprise modeling environment (CAPE-ModE). The model will be stored within a model repository where both model and metamodel elements will be stored in the form of unified modeling language (UML). 

In this section, detailed specifications for the different components and layers of CAPE-ModE will be presented. The main components of CAPE-ModE can be summarized as Model Repository in UME, Model Management System (MMS), Modeling User Interface (MUI) using Model Manipulation Eanguage (MME), Model Query Eanguage (MQE), Model Translator (MT), and Application Programming Interface routines (APIs). 

APIs are used in different ways in the information systems. However APIs are used commonly by external applications / tools to enable accessing the data/knowledge within the domain of one application. In the proposed design of CAPE-ModE, APIs are employed to access the model elements from outside CAPE-ModE domain. Applications and tools will use standard predefined (configurable) APIs to manipulate and query the model elements within the model repository. This can be done via using embedded MML and MQL within the source code of the host application / tool. Table 5-5 shows definitions of examples from the... 

Table 5-5 Examples of APIs to Manipulate the Model within CAPE-ModE...

Figure 5-5 CAPE-ModE Mechanism within PEEE...

POOM by issuing MQL commands to MMS. Figure 5-5 shows the interaction between the different components of CAPE-ModE and other components within PEEE. The utilization of such automated modeling environment within PEEE will improve the business functions by providing online and consolidated model elements for the different views. 

Computer-Aided Plant Enterprise Modeling Environment (CAPE-ModE)... 

Figure 5-6 Layout of CAPE-ModE Prototype System...

To implement this approach it is required to develop automated modeling environment that maintain the plant model elements and support the representation and manipulation of the different models within the plant enterprise. For that, the book highlighted the design framework of a computer-aided plant enterprise modeling environment called CAPE-ModE , which is based on the object-oriented modeling and UML. 

Component capemodel panel = makeTextPanel("Plant Enterprise Modeling Environment CAPE-ModE") ... 

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