Virtual Plant Drawing Consistency Automation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Inconsistent updates across various types of plant drawings, such as process flow diagrams, piping and instrument diagrams, and 3D piping diagrams, lead to inconsistencies between these drawings and the actual plant, as changes made to one diagram may not be reflected in others, resulting in potential neglect or omission of corrections.
Innovation Solution
A drawing management apparatus and system that generates a virtual plant based on multiple types of drawings, updates it when changes occur, and notifies relevant recipients, ensuring that changes are reflected across all relevant drawings, thereby maintaining consistency between the drawings and the actual plant.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If manual updates are performed across multiple drawing types, then consistency between drawings can be maintained, but the likelihood of neglect or omission increases and work efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically performs the update operation across all drawing types without requiring manual intervention. When a change is detected in one drawing type, the system self-updates other drawing types through automated processing, eliminating the need for employees to manually track and update multiple drawings while maintaining high reliability consistency.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements a feedback mechanism where changes in one drawing type trigger automated updates in other drawing types. The system continuously monitors drawing changes and automatically propagates updates, creating a closed-loop feedback system that ensures consistency without requiring additional manual work.
2Productivity
If automated updates are implemented across multiple drawing types, then work efficiency improves, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses a universal virtual plant model that serves as a common data foundation for multiple drawing types (PFD, P&ID, 3D piping diagrams). This single virtual plant structure enables automated updates across all drawing types through one unified mechanism, improving work efficiency while avoiding the complexity of separate update systems for each drawing type.
Solution Approach 2:
The virtual plant acts as an intermediary layer between different drawing types. Instead of directly linking and updating each drawing type individually, the system uses the virtual plant as a mediator that automatically propagates changes from one drawing type to others, simplifying the overall system architecture while enabling efficient automated updates.
3Measurement precision
If changes are manually tracked across drawing types, then update accuracy can be controlled, but the likelihood of omission increases and time consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system continuously monitors all drawing types for changes and automatically propagates updates without interruption. The useful action of updating drawings continues seamlessly across all drawing types, eliminating the discontinuous manual tracking process that leads to omissions and time consumption.
Solution Approach 2:
The system automatically detects changes in drawing types and self-updates other drawing types without requiring human intervention to track accuracy. This self-service mechanism ensures continuous and accurate updates while eliminating the time-consuming manual tracking process.
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AI summary
A drawing management apparatus of the present disclosure includes a processor that generates a virtual plant based on various types of drawings of a plant, updates the virtual plant, when a change is made to a drawing among the various types of drawings, based on the change, and notifies a predetermined recipient, via a communication interface, of information related to a change made to the virtual plant by updating.