JP5924009B2 - Plant engineering support equipment - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to plant design technology, and more particularly to a plant engineering support apparatus that supports plant engineering work for designing various plants such as an iron manufacturing plant, a steel plant, an oil refining plant, a chemical industrial plant, and a power plant.

  In conventional plant engineering work, equipment information related to the configuration and layout of equipment necessary to produce products in the plant and the control equipment information for each equipment that controls these equipment are presented from machine manufacturers to electrical manufacturers. Is done. There are two types of facilities and equipment that make up a plant: those that are commonly placed in multiple plants of the same type, and those that are specialized for the products that are produced. Device information is mixed and presented. In addition, since the equipment and control equipment information is created for each plant by the machine maker, in the plant engineering work at the electrical maker that designs the control system of the target plant, the equipment and control presented by the machine maker etc. It took a lot of time to examine the contents of the equipment information every time, to examine the excess and deficiency of equipment necessary to control these facilities, and to verify the control method every time.

  In addition, a series of design work in plant engineering work begins with determining basic specifications such as processes, and precedes initial design sections such as process flow design, process control design, and process facility layout design based on the basic specification data. . Next, the process proceeds to a procedure for shifting to a plurality of functional design sections such as process equipment design and control system design based on the initial design data. In addition, there are design functions related to each other in each functional design section. Therefore, it is necessary to determine related design items as soon as possible in a section having a decision right for the design items and to transmit the design items to other related design sections. Moreover, in order to meet the demand for shortening the construction period from plant design to start-up, each design stage of a series of design work must be performed almost simultaneously. In particular, in order to perform design work in parallel, it is necessary to advance the downstream design to some extent even if the upstream design data in the design procedure is not determined.

  Patent Document 1 (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2009-288986) discloses that a production support system selects a device requested by a customer from a menu prepared in advance, and extracts necessary parts from a parts table in accordance with the request. A system for supporting high-mix low-volume production is disclosed. In this support system, a parts table corresponding to a prepared menu is prepared in advance, and a customer selects an ordered item from the menu, thereby efficiently carrying out multi-product small-quantity production.

  Patent Document 2 (Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2010-79664) discloses that in an steel plant engineering support system, an identifier is added to each facility arranged in common in a steel plant designed in the past to create a database as facility master information. Is disclosed. In addition, for the target plant under design, based on the facility information obtained from the machine manufacturer, common control device information is extracted from the facility master information as base plant information. Further, it is disclosed that a facility that enables correction / addition is provided for the equipment master information, and a function that can maintain the equipment master information that is always compatible with the latest control method is provided.

JP 2009-288986 A JP 2010-79664 A

  However, engineering work such as a steel plant is a so-called ordering work, and there is almost no target for the same plant. Furthermore, the equipment configuration and the equipment to be arranged for producing plant products vary depending on the machine manufacturer. Therefore, it is difficult to prepare a selection menu in advance as in the production support system disclosed in Patent Document 1 described above.

  In Patent Document 2 described above, control equipment information of a plant designed in the past is stored and effectively used as equipment master information. In order to use equipment master information, equipment information obtained from a machine manufacturer is used. Is required. Since this equipment information is created by a machine maker for each plant for which an order is received, it may take a long time or the accuracy may be reduced. Therefore, further shortening of the construction period and improvement of the efficiency of design work are desired.

  This invention pays attention to the fact that there are many facilities that make up a plant line, and as a reference for creating facility information, the line construction information related to the same type of plant designed in the past is used as a machine. The purpose is to provide a plant engineering support device that can be provided to manufacturers to shorten the construction period and improve the efficiency of design work.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention is a plant engineering support device that associates a line name of a similar plant with an identifier of a common facility commonly used for the same plant for each plant designed in the past. A storage device that prestores facility master information in which the basic line information and the identifier of the common facility and the control device information of each device attached to the facility are associated;
A line construction information providing unit that outputs, as line construction information, an identifier of each common facility associated with the line name from the basic line information when the line name of the plant under design is input;
When equipment information including identifiers of all equipment of the plant under design created based on the line construction information is input, the control equipment information of each equipment with the same identifier is extracted from the equipment master information, And an equipment information generation unit that generates equipment-related basic information by grouping them according to the type of equipment.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a machine maker with line construction information related to the same-type plant designed in the past as information that serves as a reference for creating facility information. As a result, it is possible to shorten the work period and increase the efficiency of the plant engineering work.

It is a block block diagram which shows the plant engineering assistance apparatus in Embodiment 1 of this invention. It is a figure which shows a part of information which the memory | storage device 20 memorize | stores. It is a figure for demonstrating the function of the line construction information provision part. It is a flowchart for demonstrating the flow of the process in which the plant engineering assistance apparatus 10 produces | generates various information required by plant engineering work.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. In addition, the same code | symbol is attached | subjected to the element which is common in each figure, and the overlapping description is abbreviate | omitted.

Embodiment 1 FIG.
[Basic configuration of plant engineering support equipment]
FIG. 1 is a block configuration diagram showing a plant engineering support apparatus according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention. Each unit of the plant engineering support apparatus 10 and the storage device 20 illustrated in FIG. 1 are configured by one or a plurality of general-purpose computers. The storage device 20 includes a semiconductor memory, a magnetic disk, and the like, and is processed by the equipment information editing unit 11, the equipment condition extracting unit 12, the equipment information generating unit 13, the equipment difference correcting unit 14, and the line construction information providing unit 15. And memorize data.

  The facility information editing unit 11 edits the facility master information 21 (FIG. 2) stored in the storage device 20. The facility information editing unit 11 adds an identifier for each facility to control device information for each control device (hereinafter simply referred to as “equipment”) that controls plant facilities (hereinafter simply referred to as “equipment”) based on an instruction from the operator. It has a function to input in association. In the following description, an equipment identifier includes an equipment name.

  Specifically, the facility information editing unit 11 receives a registration identifier for a facility that is commonly arranged in various plants and control device information of each device that controls the facility. This control device information includes device specification information, input / output classification for the control signal of the device, input signal destination / output signal source, voltage specification, section classification, and the like.

  The storage device 20 stores information associating the registration identifier input to the equipment information editing unit 11 with the control device information as equipment master information 21. The equipment master information 21 is used to operate and control the equipment information of the equipment main body and the equipment information that has been preliminarily set in the past plant engineering work by the machine maker and the electric maker and discussed and examined in advance. It includes control equipment information for each facility such as necessary actuators, sensors, and operation supplies. Specifically, the storage device 20 stores the control device information for each facility as a facility master information 21 grouped according to the type of device such as a sensor, a valve, and a motor.

  In addition, when the correction identifier and the correction information regarding the device are input, the facility information editing unit 11 associates the control device information stored in the storage device 20 with the registration identifier corresponding to the correction identifier. The control device information has a function of correcting the control device information to control device information for correction. For example, when a new sensor is adopted instead of the conventional sensor, the equipment information editing unit 11 can correct the control device information of the sensor and use it as common data in future plant designs. Thus, the equipment master information 21 can always be maintained in accordance with the latest control method.

  The equipment condition extraction unit 12 receives equipment layout information 22 presented by a machine maker as information regarding the configuration and layout of different equipment required for the target plant under design. Then, when designing the equipment of the target plant, the equipment name, the identifier assigned to each equipment, etc. are extracted as equipment condition information 23 for the equipment that is commonly arranged in a plurality of different plants of the same type. The equipment condition information 23 includes information related to equipment conditions necessary for the plant.

  When the equipment identifier included in the equipment condition information 23 is input, the equipment information generation unit 13 extracts the control equipment information of each equipment associated with the identifier from the equipment master information 21, and sets the equipment information for each equipment type. The facility related basic information 24 is generated. As shown in FIG. 2, the facility-related basic information 24 includes, for example, actuator information, sensor information, operation article information, I / F signal information, and the like.

  The equipment difference correcting unit 14 is specially provided in the target plant in the equipment related basic information 24 generated by the equipment information generating unit 13 and equipment necessary for controlling special equipment arranged in the target plant, or common equipment. The equipment-related actual information 25 is generated by supplementing and correcting the equipment-related basic information 24 with information on the equipment. Accordingly, the facility-related actual information 25 includes information related to facilities specialized for the target plant under design and necessary equipment for each facility. However, at this time, the control device information added and corrected by supplementing and correcting the equipment related basic information 24 can be recognized by a third party by color change, addition of a special symbol, or the like.

  By confirming the added and modified control device information in the facility-related actual information 25, the specialized equipment arranged in the target plant and the specialized equipment in the commonly used equipment can be clearly distinguished, When designing a system for controlling the target plant, it is possible to easily recognize points to be noted. As shown in FIG. 2, the facility-related actual information 25 includes, for example, an actuator list, a sensor list, an operating device list, an I / F signal list, and the like. The equipment difference correction unit 14 also corrects unique information such as equipment numbers added to each equipment and equipment constituting the corresponding plant based on the equipment arrangement information 22. As a result, the facility-related actual information 25 is obtained by adding the information specific to the target plant to the facility-related basic information 24 accumulated in the past plant engineering work, in order to perform the corresponding plant engineering work. It will be equipped with necessary and sufficient information.

[Characteristic configuration of plant engineering support equipment]
FIG. 3 is a diagram for explaining the function of the line construction information providing unit 15. The system according to the present embodiment is mainly characterized by including the line construction information providing unit 15. Conventionally, the equipment arrangement information 22 is uniquely created every time for each ordering plant by a machine maker. However, many of the facilities that make up the plant line are common. Focusing on this, the line construction information providing unit 15 provides line construction information 26 about the same type of plant as the target plant from the electrical equipment manufacturer as information that is helpful for the machine manufacturer to create the equipment arrangement information 22. , To shorten the work period and improve the efficiency of design work.

  In FIG. 3, first, a line name is input to the line construction information providing unit 15. Examples of line names include CAL (annealing line), CGL (melt rolling plating line) and the like in steel plants. The storage device 20 stores line basic information 27. The line basic information 27 is information in which, for each plant designed in the past, a line name common to the same type plant and an identifier of common equipment commonly used for the same type plant are associated with each other. Further, an identifier of a plurality of common facilities is associated with one line name, and the identifier may be the name of the facility.

  When the line name is input, a list of common facility identifiers associated with the line name is acquired from the line basic information 27, and the line construction information 26 is generated. The line construction information providing unit 15 may further extract various types of information corresponding to the common equipment identifier from the equipment master information 21 and include them in the line construction information. The line construction information providing unit 15 outputs the generated line construction information 26 in a predetermined file format.

  According to the line construction information providing unit 15, the line construction information 26 of the same plant as the target plant being designed can be provided from the electric machine manufacturer side to the machine manufacturer side. The machine maker can efficiently create the facility arrangement information 22 with reference to this. Therefore, the construction period can be further shortened and the efficiency of design work can be improved.

  FIG. 4 is a flowchart for explaining a flow of processing in which the plant engineering support apparatus 10 generates various information necessary for plant engineering work. First, in step S100, the machine manufacturer extracts equipment condition information 23 for equipment commonly placed in a plurality of the same type and different plants based on the equipment placement information 22 of the target plant under design.

  In step S110, the facility information generation unit 13 is a facility-related basic that is control device information related to facilities common to a plurality of plants of the same type from the facility condition information 23 and the preset facility master information 21 stored in the storage device 20. Information 24 is generated.

  In step S120, the equipment difference correction unit 14 replenishes and corrects the equipment related basic information 24 based on the equipment arrangement information 22 including the control equipment information of equipment specialized for the target plant. The facility-related actual information 25 for designing the control system is generated.

  In step S130, the electric manufacturer confirms the specialized control device information in the facility-related actual information 25 obtained from the machine manufacturer, and focuses on differences from the facility-related basic information 24 such as the control method for the specialized device. Check equipment specifications. At this time, the validity of the specialized control device information is verified from the viewpoint of the control system, and at this point, the machine manufacturer is requested to correct the excess or deficiency of the control device information.

  In step S140, the machine maker examines the contents of the correction request from the electric maker, collates with the design intention of the machine maker, and replenishes or corrects the equipment related actual information 25 if there is an excess or deficiency.

  As described above, the plant engineering support device 10 according to the embodiment of the present invention is configured to operate and control the commonly arranged equipment through consultation between the machine manufacturer and the electric manufacturer through the past plant engineering work. Based on information related to the equipment constituting the target plant, the control equipment information necessary for the system is set in advance, an identifier assigned to each equipment is added to the equipment information, and the equipment master information 21 is created as a database. The facility-related basic information 24, which is the basic information for the target plant, can be generated from the facility master information 21, and the plant facility design work at the machine manufacturer can be facilitated. In addition, since the equipment master information 21 stored in the storage device 20 can be modified and added, the equipment master information 21 is discussed by the machine manufacturer and the electric manufacturer, and always corresponds to the latest production process. It is possible to maintain the equipment information and those corresponding to these control methods.

  Furthermore, basic equipment-related information 24 that is equipment information for control extracted from equipment master information that is control equipment information of common equipment for which an electric manufacturer has already established a control method, and control equipment specialized for the target plant Since the information can be clearly identified, the points to be noted in the control system design can be clarified, and from the time when the equipment-related actual information 25 is obtained from the machine manufacturer, verification of the excess or deficiency of the control equipment information viewed from the control system design Can be started immediately, and the return of control system design work can be prevented.

  It should not be understood that the above-described embodiments of the present invention limit the present invention to the descriptions and drawings that form part of this disclosure. From this disclosure, various alternative embodiments, examples, and operational techniques will be apparent to those skilled in the art. It goes without saying that the present invention includes various embodiments not described herein. Therefore, the technical scope of the present invention is defined by the invention specifying matters according to the scope of claims reasonable from the above description.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Plant engineering support apparatus 11 Equipment information editing part 12 Equipment condition extraction part 13 Equipment information generation part 14 Equipment difference correction part 15 Line construction information provision part 20 Storage device 21 Equipment master information 22 Equipment arrangement information 23 Equipment condition information 24 Equipment related basics Information 25 Equipment-related actual information 26 Line construction information 27 Line basic information

Claims (1)

For each plant designed in the past, line basic information that associates the line name of the same type plant with the identifier of the common facility commonly used for the same type of plant, and the identifier of the common facility and each device attached to the facility A storage device that pre-stores equipment master information associated with the control device information;
A line construction information providing unit that outputs, as line construction information, an identifier of each common facility associated with the line name from the basic line information when the line name of the plant under design is input;
When equipment information including identifiers of all equipment of the plant under design created based on the line construction information is input, the control equipment information of each equipment with the same identifier is extracted from the equipment master information, A facility information generation unit that generates equipment-related basic information by grouping these by device type,
A plant engineering support device comprising:

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