PLANT MODELING ENVIRONMENT CAPE-MODE

The need to describe the plant enterprise modeling environment within the context of this book is to define how to manipulate the model elements related to the safety model within the plant lifecycle. This will specify in more details how CAPE-SAFE manipulates the plant model elements related to plant safety aspects. 

Throughout the plant lifecycle there are many models that maintain certain view(s) about the plant lifecycle. The model of one stage could be part of the user objects in other stages within the plant lifecycle. For example, plant design model elements representing the P ID can be used to formulate operation, safety, and maintenance models. This means that the model elements of the plant design model are in fact metamodel elements for the plant operation model. 

The intended automated modeling environment will provide standard and central pool where model elements are represented in unified modeling language and manipulated using the central model management environment with the use of intelligent user interface. 

Another example for the modeling environment called SELF has been explained by Agensen (1993). SELF features a class-less inheritance mechanism and proposes the separation of data and methods. While the object data are inherited in the traditional object-oriented. In such environment method-object concept has been introduced. 

The functions (i.e. use cases) covered by the automated modeling environment are as follows  

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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. 

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). 

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

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

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. 

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