Untie the Gordion Knot: Plant Documentation vs. Plant Reality

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Rösberg Engineering Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH für Automation

The icing on the cake turned out to be LiveDOk’s ability while processing complex loops to embed drawings and screenshots into the documentation, simply by using copy and paste”, elaborates Wildgrube. “With this tool, all necessary and helpful information associated to the loop could be easily attached to build the final documentation. Besides standard individual redlining directly in LiveDOK as a further feature to improve a projects effectiveness, complex redlinings procedures were supplemented with bitmaps.”

As always in large automation projects, this project also faced the need to enter the same properties in several loops that were alike. These loops were allocated by using LiveDOK’s search function to be quickly and errorless transcribed.

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Plant Documentation

Techbox: From I&C-CAE ProDOK System to Easy Documentation

The I&C-CAE System ProDOK

Modern processing plants can only be operated effectively if data from the planning phase is also available for operation, maintenance and modernisation. Therefore plant reality (as-built) and documentation has to reliably conform at any time. Only then plant availability can be increased and costly new entries and unnecessary engineering expenses be avoided. This is exactly what the I&C–CAE system ProDOK does. It provides an integrated planning process according to uniform rules.

Because all the data is generated and shared in the same system, there is no trouble with irritating mistakes when transferring data. Its functions include basis planning, functional planning, detail and implementation planning in new planning projects, planning rebuilds and retrofits and add-on planning gas well as operational support.

With these system functions, the complete plant life-cycle is supported. With its continuous and consistent documentation, ProDOK ensures that every moment of a plant’s reality is reflected in the documentation. The notable results are a rise in quality, efficiency, ensure remarkable time and cost savings. The investment security is provided by the wide distribution and use of the system and state-of-the-art software technology.

LiveDOK – Documentation Made Easy

The more up-to-date the plant documentation, the more effective the plant staff can work. LiveDOK was specially developed and tailored for processes and issues in operational support. Plants can be documented electronically with this system, therefore costly multiple changes on paper and time-consuming searches for documents are a thing of the past. LiveDOK serves the complete documentation life-cycle, beginning with initial preparations via its comfortable use up to revising altered documents. Using the LiveDOK browser navigating and searching within the electronic files and changing of documents is child’s play by using the high-performance and intuitive tools. The redlining tool palette ranges from handwritten input to highlighting, crossing out dynamic stamping and much more.

Creating Loops Quickly

With the help of templates, new loops were created relatively quickly and the existing ones reworked, by simply copying the corresponding entry. “Processing was sometimes like putting together the required components”, says Wildgrube, happily. In total, the project stands for over 7,000 loops with clearly more than 12,000 I/O’s which needed to be connected between the field systems and control system, naturally such an integrated project creates the need to manage much more documents.

LiveDOK processes all common formats and can, therefore, manage floor layouts (cabinet planning, etc.), site plans, process flow diagrams, I&C site lists, safety related documentation, operating instructions, testing requirements, maintenance instructions, as well as process oriented documentations.
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A running plant or mill profits just as much from an electronic plant documentation. The system makes all the information available as ‘Real Time As-Built Documentation’. “Plant documentation always corresponds to the real condition of the constructed plant”, concludes Wildgrube. Everyone involved always has access to the most current information; changes are made quickly, easily and are fully traceable at all times as well.

* Both authors are with Rösberg Engineering. Panarisi is Head of of Rösberg's Engineering Center Rheinfelden

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