摘要 |
Process engineering software applications have respective proprietary in nature and disconnected model representations of a manufacturing or processing facility. The invention method and apparatus extract from the various applications topology of equipment and streams for a facility. From the extracted data, a convertor or adapter of the invention system derives a common canonical model. To support the common canonical model (e.g., a Flowsheet object in embodiments), the converter/adapter maps or associates one or more physical assets to a logical asset, and arranges a working hierarchy of assets that can be navigated, queried and filtered. |