An approach for integrating process and control simulation into the plant engineering process

The generation of plant models for simulation is in general a task for modelling experts which are seldom available during the engineering process of a plant. The paper proposes an automatic model aggregation concept which provides the planning engineer with a simulation model at the end of the plant engineering process, such that he can test and debug the plant functions by simulation before it is built. To demonstrate the feasibility of this approach, a prototype example illustrates the practical realisation.