Efficient platform “OpreX Data Model Broker” new on the market

The “OpreX Data Mod­el Broke” plat­form, which was devel­oped by Yoko­gawa, auto­mat­i­cal­ly checks data con­sis­ten­cy in dif­fer­ent plant designs and instru­men­ta­tion sys­tems and allows their cross-use by apply­ing the AI tech­nique “ontol­ogy” in data­base oper­a­tion and management.

“Design Data Val­i­da­tion” is the first com­po­nent released for this plat­form and facil­i­tates the com­pli­cat­ed and time-con­sum­ing task of sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly iden­ti­fy­ing and ver­i­fy­ing incon­sis­ten­cies between pip­ing and instru­men­ta­tion (P&ID) schemat­ics and 3D pip­ing dia­grams. By auto­mat­i­cal­ly iden­ti­fy­ing such incon­sis­ten­cies in extreme­ly large data sets, this com­po­nent increas­es work effi­cien­cy and sig­nif­i­cant­ly reduces the amount of work usu­al­ly required.

Development Background

As the size and com­plex­i­ty of process plants have increased in recent years, the equip­ment installed in these plants has also become more com­plex. When a plant is new­ly built or expand­ed, the depart­ments respon­si­ble for the indi­vid­ual work areas use dif­fer­ent plan­ning tools. This also applies to plants for which there are not only design and spec­i­fi­ca­tion doc­u­ments, but also dia­grams from device and equip­ment man­u­fac­tur­ers and engi­neer­ing data from var­i­ous sys­tem suites.

In most cas­es, very time-con­sum­ing man­u­al checks have to be per­formed to ensure com­plete con­sis­ten­cy of all data. While the num­ber of 3D pip­ing dia­grams is usu­al­ly already in the thou­sands, a large project may have as many as 10,000 or more of these doc­u­ments, and all of this data cur­rent­ly needs to be man­u­al­ly checked. As a result, there is a strong demand for a sys­tem that uses dig­i­tal tech­nolo­gies to increase the inter­op­er­abil­i­ty of the data and ensure its reliability.

Features

The fol­low­ing con­sis­ten­cies are auto­mat­i­cal­ly ver­i­fied by Design Data Val­i­da­tion of the platform:

- all pip­ing attribute infor­ma­tion in P&ID and 3D pip­ing dia­grams is cross-checked

- the attribute infor­ma­tion for each pipeline com­po­nent and its sequences are validated

- when a change to a valve end pip­ing spec­i­fi­ca­tion is defined in a P&ID, the pip­ing spec­i­fi­ca­tions for that valve and its flange are val­i­dat­ed in the 3D pip­ing diagram

- it is ver­i­fied that the flow direc­tion for each pip­ing com­po­nent in the 3D pip­ing dia­gram match­es the process flow direc­tion in the P&ID.

Main applications

Ver­i­fi­ca­tion of P&ID and 3D pip­ing dia­grams dur­ing the engi­neer­ing, pro­cure­ment, and con­struc­tion (EPC) phase for petro­le­um, chem­i­cal, and oth­er plant con­struc­tion or expan­sion projects.