Industrial Plant Layout Collaboration With Geographic Model Overlay
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current design techniques for industrial plants lack efficiency and cost-effectiveness due to the inability to merge diverse models and facilitate collaborative design across multiple disciplines and remote locations, leading to suboptimal industrial plant designs.
Innovation Solution
A collaborative design system that overlays industrial plant layouts onto geographic images, allowing multiple users to input and manipulate designs in real-time, merging 2D/3D CAD models with environmental, economic, performance, and regulatory models to create optimized industrial plant designs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If traditional design techniques are used for industrial plants, then design processes can be completed, but design efficiency and quality are insufficient due to inability to merge diverse models and facilitate remote collaboration
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges 2D/3D CAD models with environmental, economic, performance, and regulatory models into a unified collaborative design system. This integration allows diverse models to work together seamlessly, improving design efficiency while managing complexity through standardized data exchange protocols and a common platform architecture.
Solution Approach 2:
The collaborative design system is designed as a universal platform that can handle multiple types of models (CAD, environmental, economic, performance, regulatory) and support various design disciplines simultaneously. This multi-functional approach enables a single system to address diverse design requirements without proportionally increasing complexity.
2Ease of manufacture
If traditional design methods are used, then designs can be created, but cost-effectiveness is reduced due to lack of collaborative capabilities across multiple disciplines and remote locations
Solution Approach 1:
The collaborative design system acts as an intermediary platform that connects experts from different disciplines and remote locations. It mediates between diverse models and stakeholders, enabling cost-effective collaboration by reducing the need for physical meetings, travel, and manual model exchanges while maintaining adaptability across different design scenarios.
3Manufacturing precision
If diverse models are merged in a collaborative system, then design quality improves, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments diverse models into distinct modules (CAD models, environmental models, economic models, performance models, regulatory models) that can be independently developed, validated, and maintained. This modular segmentation improves design quality through specialized modeling while managing complexity by allowing each segment to be handled by appropriate experts using standardized interfaces.
Solution Approach 2:
The system manages complexity by transforming diverse models into a common parameter framework with standardized data exchange formats. By changing the representation parameters of different models to a unified schema, the system enables high-quality integrated designs without proportionally increasing system complexity, as the transformation follows defined conversion rules.
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AI summary
A system includes a collaborative design system that includes a processor configured to display an industrial plant layout on a display. The processor is also configured to overlay the industrial plant layout onto a geographic image. Further, the processor is configured to receive one or more inputs from a plurality of remote users. In addition, the processor is configured to manipulate the layout with respect to the geographic image based on the one or more inputs. Moreover, the processor is configured to create an industrial plant design based on the industrial plant layout and the geographic image.