Pipeline Plan Consistency Checking Across 2D and 3D Layouts
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current project planning systems face challenges in reliably and efficiently verifying the consistent recording of pipelines between two-dimensional and three-dimensional representations, leading to potential inconsistencies in design and connectivity.
Innovation Solution
A method is introduced to identify main paths in both plans, compare sequences of objects, eliminate non-corresponding objects, and iteratively classify and correct ordering discrepancies, ensuring a consistent and correct assignment of objects between two-dimensional and three-dimensional pipeline recordings, displayed on a graphical user interface.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If manual verification methods are used to check consistency between 2D and 3D pipeline recordings, then flexibility and adaptability are maintained, but reliability and productivity deteriorate due to human error and time consumption
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual mechanical verification processes with an automated computer-based system that extracts pipeline data from both 2D and 3D recordings, compares them algorithmically, and generates consistency reports. This substitution of human manual checking with automated computational methods simultaneously improves reliability by eliminating human error and productivity by reducing verification time
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a digital copy of pipeline data from both 2D and 3D recordings in a standardized format, allowing for precise comparison without affecting the original designs. This copying approach enables reliable verification while maintaining workflow efficiency, as the comparison can be performed automatically on the replicated data structures
2Productivity
If automated data extraction and comparison is implemented, then productivity and reliability improve, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The project planning system is designed with multi-functional capabilities that allow it to perform both 2D and 3D pipeline recording, data extraction, and consistency verification within a single integrated platform. This universality reduces the need for separate specialized tools and simplifies the overall system architecture despite the increased automation capabilities
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary data layer that standardizes pipeline information from both 2D and 3D recordings before comparison. This intermediary representation acts as a mediator that simplifies the complexity of direct comparison between different design formats, enabling automated verification without requiring complex point-to-point mapping logic
3Measurement precision
If detailed object-by-object comparison is performed, then measurement precision and reliability improve, but loss of time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-extracting and structuring pipeline data from both 2D and 3D recordings before the actual comparison. This preliminary data preparation includes identifying key pipeline objects, their properties, and spatial relationships in advance, which enables rapid precise comparison without time-consuming manual analysis during the verification phase
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the pipeline verification process into distinct manageable components: data extraction from 2D recording, data extraction from 3D recording, object matching, property comparison, and discrepancy reporting. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized independently and processed efficiently, maintaining high measurement precision while reducing overall verification time through parallel processing capabilities
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AI summary
A method for checking consistent recording of pipelines recorded two-dimensionally in a first plan and three-dimensionally in a second plan, wherein a main path within each plan is determined for pipelines recorded in both plans, within both plans, objects having sequences of line components, branches and/or connections are determined for the recorded main paths, where objects without mutual correspondence that are recorded only in one of the two plans or only in a main path of one of the two plans are each eliminated from sequences to be compared, where within the sequences to be compared, objects having a different order which, with regard to their order within the sequences to be compared, have a maximum order difference, are subsequently determined and classified iteratively, where this is continued until the objects remaining after classification have no order difference with regard to their order within the sequences to be compared.