An Integrated Implementation Methodology of a Lifecycle-Wide Tracking Simulation Architecture

Martínez, Gerardo Santillán; Karhela, Tommi; Ruusu, Reino; Sierla, Seppo; Vyatkin, Valeriy

doi:10.1109/access.2018.2811845

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“…1). The functionality of the process is not important for the aims of this article, but interested readers will find more details in [4], [9], [10], [37].…”

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“…4) Use the matches to augment applications relying only on either 2D or 3D information sources. For example, [9] generate the physical aspect of a digital twin of a process based solely on the 3D information, so control software is not generated and a legacy control system is expected to be integrated as in [10]. [3] generate the cyber aspect of a digital twin, i.e.…”

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Integrating 2D and 3D Digital Plant Information Towards Automatic Generation of Digital Twins

Sierla

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Fay

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2020 IEEE 29th International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE)

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Ongoing standardization in Industry 4.0 supports tool vendor neutral representations of Piping and Instrumentation diagrams as well as 3D pipe routing. However, a complete digital plant model requires combining these two representations. 3D pipe routing information is essential for building any accurate first-principles process simulation model. Piping and instrumentation diagrams are the primary source for control loops. In order to automatically integrate these information sources to a unified digital plant model, it is necessary to develop algorithms for identifying corresponding elements such as tanks and pumps from piping and instrumentation diagrams and 3D CAD models. One approach is to raise these two information sources to a common level of abstraction and to match them at this level of abstraction. Graph matching is a potential technique for this purpose. This article focuses on automatic generation of the graphs as a prerequisite to graph matching. Algorithms for this purpose are proposed and validated with a case study. The paper concludes with a discussion of further research needed to reprocess the generated graphs in order to enable effective matching.

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“…1). The functionality of the process is not important for the aims of this article, but interested readers will find more details in [4], [9], [10], [37].…”

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Integrating 2D and 3D Digital Plant Information Towards Automatic Generation of Digital Twins

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Fay

et al. 2020

2020 IEEE 29th International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE)

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“…The case study is a thermo-hydraulic water process [9], [24]- [26]. The process has been modelled in the Intergraph Smart 3D tool (Fig.…”

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Generating an industrial process graph from 3D pipe routing information

Sierla

Azangoo

Vyatkin

2020

2020 25th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA)

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The automatic generation of digital twins of industrial processes requires the integration of several sources of information. If the twin is expected to accurately capture thermo-hydraulic phenomena, dimensions of tanks and other process components as well as detailed pipe routing information is relevant. Such information is not comprehensively captured in P&IDs (Piping & Instrumentation Diagrams), but it is available from 3D CAD models. However, information about control loops is not available from 3D CAD models, but is available from P&IDs. Previous research has demonstrated the extraction of such information from machine-readable P&IDs and 3D CAD models and converting this information to graphs. Further research is expected on applying graph matching methods for integrating these separate graphs to a common graph-based data structure that captures all of the desired information. This common model could support further work to develop digital twins. A major obstacle to this is that the graphs that have currently been generated from P&IDs and 3D CAD models are at very different abstraction levels, so graph matching methods are not feasible. This article address this obstacle by building on previous work, in which graphs were generated from P&IDs and 3D CAD models. The contribution of this paper is several novel algorithms for preprocessing a 3D CAD generated graph, until it is at the same level of abstraction as a P&ID generated graph of the same industrial process. The algorithms are demonstrated in the context of a laboratory process.

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“…An often useful way to meet these challenges is to replicate the situation locally on the operator's control center in order to anticipate potentially critical developments in due time. Such technologies as digital twins and online simulation [2], synchronised with the physical process, can be seen as elements helping to find a solution.…”

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Assessing Long Distance Communication Alternatives for the Remote Control of AGVs

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Pääkkönen

Blech

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2020 25th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA)

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Remote monitoring and control of factory equipment promises a more streamlined and therefore less expensive system operation and maintenance. The geographical distance between a factory and its control center, however, may influence the Quality of Service parameters of the network connections which might stymie the overall control process. To get a better understanding of these potential issues and their impact, we conducted a series of measurements over varying distances for the remote control, operation and simulation of Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) that are often used in modern factory environments. To achieve these tests, we defined three communication patterns reflecting local and remote connections as well as the usage of cloud-based services. Applying these patterns, we connected the Factory of the Future at the Aalto University in Finland with the VxLab at the RMIT University in Australia and the Microsoft Azure cloud in the Netherlands. This allowed us to measure important Quality of Service networking parameters for the communication over short, medium, and very long distances. In this paper, we present first empirical results and discuss their impact on the remote control of AGVs.

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An Integrated Implementation Methodology of a Lifecycle-Wide Tracking Simulation Architecture

Cited by 22 publications

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Integrating 2D and 3D Digital Plant Information Towards Automatic Generation of Digital Twins

Integrating 2D and 3D Digital Plant Information Towards Automatic Generation of Digital Twins

Generating an industrial process graph from 3D pipe routing information

Assessing Long Distance Communication Alternatives for the Remote Control of AGVs

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