Intelligent plant development library environment

摘要

An intelligent plant development library environment is presented. Contemplated environments comprise an EPC knowledge system capable of incorporating know-how of one or more construction firms in the form of assembly objects. Assembly objects represent construction components (e.g., bolts, cable trays, pipes, processing units, deliverables, etc.) that can be incorporated into a plant design. Assembly objects are stored in an assembly database and include available contexts considered relevant to the assembly objects. An inference engine is utilized to derive a specified context related to a plant design from one or more design tools. The inference engine applies rule sets to infer which assembly objects to instantiate as construction objects. The inference engine can further configure the design tools to incorporate the instantiated construction objects into a plant construction project model. Example rule sets include forward chaining rules, backward chaining rules, case-based reasoning rules, inductive reasoning rules, or abductive reasoning rules.

主权项

1. A plant development knowledge system comprising:
an assembly database storing a plurality of assembly objects, each of the assembly objects representative of a plant construction component and having an available context; and an inference engine coupled with the assembly database and comprising a modifiable inference module having inference rules, and configured to:
infer a specified context from attributes of a construction project, wherein the specified context defines one or more design elements within one or more external tools;select an assembly object from the plurality of assembly objects that is related to the construction project according to the inference rules, the specified context, and the available context;instantiate a construction object that is representative of a physical construction object from the assembly object by deriving at least one physical attribute of the instantiated construction object based on at least one of the inference rule the specified context and the available context, wherein the least one physical attribute of the instantiated construction object corresponds to at least one physical dimension of the physical construction object; andconfigure an external tool to incorporate the instantiated construction object into a construction project model related to the specified context.