An interconnected approach of GIS, PDMS and NMS projects and ...

An interconnected approach of GIS, PDMS and NMS projects and applications for outspread enterprises

Preamble

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Oil & Gas

Electric generators

Distribution network

we all know that it is strongly advisable to use GIS from the earliest stage of design of the plant/enterprise Strategical Design [with geospatial emphasis] • resource availability and procurement • relationship with the economical and social environment • environmental implications but the GIS assistance must cover the whole life-cycle of the enterprise

An interconnected approach of GIS, PDMS and NMS projects and applications for outspread enterprises

» state-administered Let us suppose that: » private owned • we have a well established • or we intend to build a new ENTERPRISE

there will certainly be moments when we need to ensure: • optimizing processes • expanding facilities • executive management • operative management

• electrical power plant • power distribution network • petroleum refinery • oil distribution • gas distribution network • chemistry processing • telecommunication radio, phone, Internet • huge airport • other geospatially spread organizations

Premises

and each of this • EGIS - Enterprise Geographic Information System can request • PDMS - Plant Design & Management Systems a project of: • NMS - Network Management System Mircea BADUT Romania, 2004

• MPM - Manufacturing Process Management • MMS - Maintenance Management System

An interconnected approach of GIS, PDMS and NMS projects and applications for outspread enterprises

I propose to (quasi)synchronously start/deploy such projects to gain the maximum proficiency in the operative/executive management. As responsible persons knowing that the enterprise will have to eventually benefit from at least two of such projects/applications - we have to study the possibility of simultaneous approach, and even to sustain it. And now let's see some "why’s".

ENTERPRISE • electrical power plant • power distribution network • petroleum refinery • oil distribution • gas distribution network • chemistry processing • telecommunication radio, phone, Internet • huge airport • other geospatially spread organizations

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• EGIS - Enterprise Geographic Information System • PDMS - Plant Design & Management Systems • NMS - Network Management System • MPM - Manufacturing Process Management • MMS - Maintenance Management System

An interconnected Even if the necessity of an EGIS for geospatial management of the enterprise's assets/processes doesn’t frequently appear approach of simultaneously with the indispensability of a PDMS or NMS application/project, the executive staff of the enterprise could GIS, be advised about the worthiness of the simultaneous approach. PDMS and If all the project's developments start (quasi)synchronously, NMS we can identify significant benefits in the fact that any of projects and these directions (EGIS, PDMS, NMS) will access the same technical enterprise archives. There will often be a single applications searching/synthetizing effort instead of two or three. for outspread For integrability reasons, we have to choose a truly opened IT environment: enterprises ♦ a reliable enterprise computer network (single LAN; connected LANs; intranet; Synchro-Start

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VPN; servers), with robust/comprehensive policy/security rules; ♦ a CAD system -- such as MicroStation, SmartSketch, or AutoCAD; or an opened GIS platform -- such as GeoMedia, Smallworld, ArcGIS+ArcObject; ♦ a database system (relational; objectual-relational), able to work in a client/server model, possibly multi-tiered (with middle layers for applications), and supporting an opening/exchange mechanism (ODBC, JDBC, SQL, COM, DCOM, ActiveX, ADO); ♦ document-interoperability (based on OLE, CORBA, OpenDOC, XML).

An interconnected approach of GIS, PDMS and NMS projects and applications for outspread enterprises

Synchro-Xploit

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Connections between EGIS, PDMS and NMS must also be assumed towards the other head of the application life-cycle: implementing and exploiting. When the projects/applications become useful for analysis/exploitation, we will often meet administration analysis situations when it is difficult to distinguish the boundary of the source-applications. There will be situations when the collaboration between EGIS and additional systems can be valuable. Within an appropriate integration, for a "large" enterprise management, in a top-bottom exploration, the transition from the "outside world" (modelled and directed through GIS) and the "inside world" (controlled by PDMS or/and NMS) can become not just possible, but seamless too.

property administration sometime-called An interconnected The industry cadastre ♦ The patrimony inventory (AM/FM ), deals with: • the quantitative criteria (quantities/values/ranges/types for materials, approach of subassemblies, plants, buildings, building-appendices); • the qualitative criteria (quality states, lifetimes, wearing degrees, GIS, standing times, maintenance histories). PDMS and ♦ The patrimony state: generating synthetic or analytical reports about the real or estimated state of plants; building "what-if" scenarios. NMS ♦ The location of patrimony components: by revealing the neighbourhoods and the interferences of plant components, can study projects and and optimize the interactions of systems, networks and buildings. applications General control systems The plants, systems and buildings administration with the EGIS help can offer: for outspread » general prognosis on various goals and on studied specific situations; enterprises » developing and following “what-if” scenarios (favourable or unfavourable);

» damage analysis/evaluation, or pre-establishing the restoring methodology. ... + EGIS

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The development and investments planning The EGIS information/functions can support very useful analysis for the development design: • surfaces and volumes available for various facilities; • neighbourhoods and specific interaction; • proximity of resources demanded by the process of building and by the functionality of the developed process (fuel supply network, railways, accessing roads, power supply, steam or boiling water supply, etc).

An interconnected approach of GIS, PDMS and NMS projects and applications for outspread enterprises

.… + EGIS

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Integration and interoperability prospects The graphical database developed in a geographic information system - in relation with structural and technical information - can be used to provide representations and bi- or three-dimensional models of the facilities from the plant patrimony. The material composition, the vertical structures and technical specifications (usually controlled by PDMS) can bring to the user informational models with a higher level of comprehensiveness (properties, annotation, symmetry centers, weights, inertial moments, strength of materials, admissible strength). The development and utilization of the EGIS information, taken as a superior way of organization, can supply openings for resources administrations (ERP) and even for industrial real-time process control applications (SCADA).

For example, using the “network” features of EGIS applications (network = the logical connection between the project entities) we can obtain a quasi-complete representation of the followed production process (usually solved by P&ID software).

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... + PDMS

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PLANT DESIGN AND MODELLING When the plant spreads on a large terrain, the potential collaboration with EGIS applications becomes obvious. PDMS usually assume two directions: ♦ "Piping and Instrumentation Diagrams" (P&ID, which is about the standard The "plant design & representation of piping technological flows); management systems" ♦ "3D Piping Modelling" (three-dimensional design and modelling for piping, equipment, pipe support, structural, HVAC ductwork, electrical cable tray, and conduit modelling).

usually include applications that address many engineering and managing tasks / requirements from the plant life-cycle: • conceptual design • detailed design • project planning • project managing • plant start-up • operations/exploitation • plant maintenance • preservation • plant shut-down

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…. + PDMS

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The core of a 3D plant modelling system provide: ♦ Dynamic component placement and modifications (pipe modelling); ♦ Conceptual pipe-routing; ♦ Specification (rules) driven design system and specification generator; ♦ Parametric catalog with ISO, ANSI, BSI and DIN standard piping components (and customizable standards); ♦ Placement of user-defined components (treated as genuine components); ♦ Powerful query, selection and modification of single components, lines and assemblies.

Some other generic features of the PDMS applications: __ Database management; __ Report customization; __ Interference detection (this feature detects the collisions between 3D models, and facilitates the treatment of the found clashes); __ Linkages to stress analysis applications (FEA); __ Models can easily include local and particular rules; __ Possibility to incorporate a vast amount of digital information (ASCII files, databases, CAD files, spreadsheets, images); __ Capability to integrate and manipulate information from existing systems (through standard exchanging mechanisms); __ Internet access: design/modelling data can be easily transferred between different portals and web-sites, while still maintaining the integrity of the project data.

An interconnected NETWORK MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS For those enterprises which own/manage utility networks (power, gas, approach of telecommunication, water, wastewater), the "NMS" concept refers to: » the network assets management (from economical/technical viewpoints); GIS, » the network maintenance (OMS, MMS); PDMS and » real-time network control (SCADA). NMS projects and For a while, the utility network managers have applications tried to use GIS applications to for outspread administrate and exploit The "NMS+EGIS" approach offers a more complete enterprises the enterprise resources. perspective over the network management, and the

... + NMS

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But the simple and conventional GIS approach can not cover all the needed aspects, such as real-time network monitoring and controlling (SCADA), or identifying the outage and assisting the network functionality restoration (OMS).

solutions tend to support enterprise departments and functions as much as possible. So, the IT assistance cover almost all the network administration problems: ♦ enterprise/facilities investments (design, expanding, modernization, up- and downsizing); ♦ network inventory (technical tasks, economical audit); ♦ assisting and leveraging the field-operations for network outage and revision; ♦ automatizing the network parameters monitoring/controlling (SCADA, MMI); ♦ economical optimization of the enterprise infrastructure.

An interconnected approach of GIS, PDMS and NMS projects and applications for outspread enterprises

The EGIS+NMS applications will succeed in reuniting almost all the network management aspects, moving the control center into a single integrated system, able to share the information/applications anywhere in the enterprise where they are needed: _ in any offices, _ on the field, _ at dispatching centers » via the local computer network(s), » via Internet / VPN, » through "wire-less" channels.

We will meet superior features such as: • the prognosis concerning the network loadings,

.... + NMS

• the dynamic flow switching (automatically signalling and treating the load unbalances - very useful in electrical power or in telecommunication networks, as a QoS premise), • maintenance management (from work orders administration to HRM ), • raising the network efficiency and security/safety, • identifying the most failure-vulnerable network devices, • the managerial decision assistance (DSS valences),

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• the enterprise level integration (data flows between EGIS+NMS and ERP applications).

The EGIS+PDMS+NMS applications An interconnected effectively help decision managers and approach of designers, and also provide the The technico-economical premises for return-on-investment management assistance points to GIS, (RoI) guaranty and for “ISO_9000” the detailed inventory, with all the certification gamut of technical/engineering PDMS and information, but also showing the NMS The IT support for plant/network expanding economical values of the and for plugging-in new customers can projects and plant/network assets and their engage even geo-referenced demographic weariness and amortization applications information (population densities and profiles, geographically spread) for outspread The EGIS+PDMS+NMS solutions can manage the plant/network outages, helping the enterprises operators/responders to also geospatially study the outage impact over the

Together

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services/customers (showing distances, accessing ways, neighbouring resources, etc). Some concrete OMS facilities: ♦ dispatcher alarming when certain critical plant/network parameters - real-time monitored - overpass established threshold values; ♦ answering the phone calls which signal plant/network outages/failures, and deploying the handling procedures; ♦ geospatially locating of the outage/failure (1), appointing the field-workers team for plant/network restoring (2), route-assistance for this maintenance team (preferably involving on-line communication, LBS, mobile devices, and GPS) (3), recommending and assisting the back-up procedures (4), technical guidance for the reparation (5), and recording/monitoring the restoration (6).

An interconnected approach of GIS, PDMS and NMS projects and applications for outspread enterprises

♦ if only a kind of project is started, certain solutions to the local running problems concerning the input information become difficult to access later and must often be rethought; ♦ if only the PDMS or the NMS project is completed, there will be situations when certain global analyses can not be done (analyses regarding large spatial relationships); ♦ the correlation of the projects should aid the review of technical, designing and managing specifications at a single attempt - this becomes frequently useful to the plants reconditioning or modernizing (it is advisable to synchronize such necessities with the project developing); ♦ the access to the enterprise's “Documents Offices” (when the security rules are tight, and the archives are in analogical format: hand-drafted, printed) can cause time wasting and even project delays if the applications are separately developed; ♦ in any concrete enterprise/plant development scenarios the presence of connected applications is highly recommended and - with such an integrated EGIS/PDMS/NMS environment - many problems concerning facilities and buildings designing and managing can be resolved fast and sharp. Utility 24% Telecom. 62% 14% Others

GIS market:

At the end

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EGIS products ArcGIS, ArcInfo, ArcView [ESRI]; GeoMedia, MGE [Intergraph]; AutoCAD Map, Autodesk Map [Autodesk]; Smallworld [GE]; MicroStation Geographics [Bentley]

PDMS products PlantSpace [Jacobus, Bentley]; OmniSeries, PlantSpace, AutoPlant [Rebis, Bentley]; PDS, SmartPlant, FrameWorks [Intergraph]; Catia/Cadam Plant [Dassault Systemes]; Factory CAD [EDS]; Pro/ENGINEER Piping Design [PTC]; CADWorx, CAESAR [COADE]; Plant-4D [CEA Technology]; CadPipe [AEC Design]

NMS products ENMAC, PowerOn, Network Physical/Logical Inventory [GE]; G/Technology, G/Electric, G/Gas, G/Comms, G/Water, InService [Intergraph]; Surpass, HDMS, HiPath [Siemens]

An interconnected approach of GIS, PDMS and NMS projects and applications for outspread enterprises

Last word

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this idea was initially inspired by a negative example: a large local enterprise where several GIS and PDMS projects were independently deployed but that began ten years ago, when very few of the implications could be foreseen