“…The need of having diverse simulation tools for specific purposes raises a requirement for tool integration when some of them have to be jointly used to fulfill a more complex task. This can be necessary when taking a lifecycle perspective, which has been found increasingly promising in process industries in order to achieve globally optimized performance (Marquardt, et al, 1999;Mayer, Schoenmakers, 2000;Wolf, 2001). In the lifecycle of a process plant, plant-wide simulation is quite common in different stages to support various engineering activities.…”