PuK - Process Technology & Components 2024

Components
Plant documentation
Managing assets and
package units
Digital documentation is also beneficial
for effective asset management
– for instance, when a manufacturer
discontinues an asset,
making it necessary to know how
many of the relevant components
are built into the plant and where;
or when compiling an overview
of components that will no longer
receive support in the near future.
Only a company managing
its assets effectively can keep production
running reliably. Another
aspect that necessitates digital
documentation is the trend in
the process industry towards integrating
Package Units, meaning
the distribution of large plants into
smaller units. This raises the question
of how the documentation
that is delivered together with a
functional unit can most easily be
transferred into the already-existing
plant documentation.
When engaging in extensive plant
retrofit or extensions, or for inspection
purposes, many project-related
documents also have
to be immediately available as
and when required. If these documents
only exist in paper form,
or are only available from different
sources and in assorted file
formats, compiling them is effortintensive
and not overly efficient.
Another advantage of consistent
digital documentation is that
know-how can be preserved, because
the knowledge no longer
exists solely in the minds of experienced
employees. This substantially
facilitates knowledge transfer
to new employees.
“In all these and many other
use cases, LiveDOK has been
proving its worth for decades
now” the Account Manager Plant
Solutions says, and adds: “With
digitalization the focus was on
the PC, but with Industry 4.0 the
focus is on the Internet. This also
applies, so to speak, to Plant Documentation
4.0. We have been
creating digital documentation
for a long time now, but we have
consistently developed our concepts
further, for instance regarding
cloud enablement, in order to
stay with the pulse of the times.
Thus, our customers get a tried
and tested product that uses today’s
state-of-the-art technologies
to fulfill the technical and legal requirements
of tomorrow.” In the
use cases described above, the
documentation tool enables documents
to be found fast, provides
a realistic overview of the components
built into the plant while
helping to keep docu mentation
up-to-date, ensures standardization
in documentation in line
with current legal requirements,
gives all disciplines involved in a
project access to the documentation
without media discontinuity,
and ensures that everyone in
the team is working with the same
documents.
Rösberg Engineering GmbH
Rösberg Engineering GmbH, founded in Karlsruhe in 1962,
offers tailored automation solutions created by 180 employees
working at seven locations in Germany and one in India and
China, for internationally active enterprises in the process industry.
Today RÖSBERG is an internationally successful automation
specialist and developer of software solutions. Its scope includes
basic and detail engineering for the automation of process
and production plants as well as the configuration, delivery
and commissioning of distributed control systems. The enterprise
also has extensive project planning and application experience
in the implementation of safety-related controls, is an
expert in functional safety, and offers sector-specific software
solutions in the area of information technology. The I&C-CAE
system ProDOK has enjoyed international success for more
than 30 years now. Together under the name of Plant Solutions,
ProDOK, the digital plant documentation LiveDOK and the Plant
Assist Manager (PAM) support plants over their whole life cycle,
from planning, construction and commissioning through to
modernization, expansion and decommissioning.
Project-related documentation
and know-how transfer
Getting started is easier
than you think
Companies who wish to consistently
implement Industry 4.0 cannot
do so without digital, cloud
capable plant documentation, especially
where large plants are
concerned. Nevertheless, many
companies are still put off by the
initial effort and expense of digitalizing
their documentation at all
in the first place. Here the process
automation experts can reassure
them – numerous projects carried
out in the past have shown
that getting started is much easier
than users generally fear. And
not only that – very often digitalization
opens up many optimization
opportunities, so the effort
pays off much faster than many
people think.
The Authors:
Dipl.-Ing. (BA) Martin Dubovy,
Account Manager Plant Solutions
and Dipl.-Betriebsw. (FH)
Evelyn Landgraf, Marketing, at
Rösberg Engineering GmbH
https://livedok.roesberg.com/
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