Engineering the Semantic Plant

Engineering complex close fitting encapsulated control systems for plants requires the incorporation of a number of data capture and review processes to eliminate the post start up operational risk as early as possible in the project time frame.

While the 'semantic web' continues to take shape with SPARQL and RDP/OWL databases and their definition taking shape in ISO 15926 construction communities, Invensys is building up the core tools, templates, rules bases and workbench processes to take on larger and larger plant designs in collaboration with it's customers.

Reflected Doyle Spirals - F Decomite [Flickr] [ CC ]

The Doyle Spiral as depicted in Reflected Doyle Spirals beautifully traces the packing of ever increasing circle size in sets of interlocking coloured spirals. These sets have aspects of encapsulation, increasing scale, close fitting components and simple recursive rules to define their behaviour. It is my view that engineering highly scalar control and safety systems follows similar structures, and as such, we might keep in mind how best to frame the close fitting data exchanges between different companies and engineering teams in order to make them equally elegant.