Engineering and Commissioning of Production Systems

In modern production, individuality, flexibility, and efficiency are crucial success factors. Plant manufacturers, not only in the automotive sector, must continuously simplify their engineering and commissioning processes to meet these demands.

Effective and seamless digitization of data exchange throughout the entire lifecycle of a system enables optimal collaboration between the involved parties and is therefore a significant optimization lever. The DIAMOND project aims to create a common, connected, cross-domain data model that meets specific industrial requirements.

For this purpose, all required process steps (see Figure 1), actors, tools, data formats, and exchanged information must be analyzed in detail. The results of this analysis were developed in detail together with participants from all process phases (i.e., the entire value chain network) and represent the current state of the art in plant planning and construction. They are provided by the DIAMOND project and licensed under CC BY-SA.

Figure 1: Process Overview

To describe the processes, interactions, and major information artifacts and to discuss based on a graphical representation, BPMN was used (see Figure 2). These representations were supplemented by the LIPOK method (see Figure 3), which was used to analyze information and data in detail. Figures 2 and 3 show the information obtained using the PPR model as an example.

Figure 2: Product Process Resource Coupling (PPR)

Figure 3: LIPOK Diagram

Based on the process analysis, the project partners now derive requirements for DIAMOND. The listed software tools and their interactions provide indications of the required interfaces for DIAMOND. The current process analysis continues to serve as the basis for formulating target processes that counteract data waste. Additionally, the collection of exchanged information provides the foundation for the shared data model.