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VRIDGE Demonstrator Life-cycles
Contents:
- Introduction (see below)
- Life histories and life-cycles (The Toyo Engineering Company's Railway Crossing Diagram
and its relationship with PERA)
- Relationship among life histories and life-cycles
- The Architecture of the VRIDGE Demonstrator
- The Architecture of VRIDGE Inc.
- The Architecture of the Virtual Xylene Fractionation Unit
(Click on the process boxes (yellow) to decompose, and the back arrow or process label to go back)
Introduction
VRIDGE is an acronym of Virtual and Real Information Technologies Driven Global Engineering (or Enterprise)
and is a demonstrator project for product life-cycle driven plant engineering.
The rationale and brief presentation of the VRIDGE Demonstrator project is given in the VRIDGE position
paper.
The present document has been prepared to demonstrate the application of life-cycle architectures to enterprise
engineering; in particular the use of the Purdue Enterprise Reference Architecture (PERA) to organise and help
manage the complex information in the VRIDGE Demonstrator project.
Some potential uses of this work:
- Better understanding of the engineering process and its relationship with product life-cycles;
- Potential to improve the creation and execution of plant engineering projects through creating and visualising
a model of distributed project enterprise;
- Potential to improve TEC's plant engineering process through the identification of the place and links of activities
which were carried out earlier in an informal manner;
- General improvement of the VRIDGE project through a systematic consideration of each life-cycle related to
it.
- better understanding of the relationship between life-cycles (engineering company <-> engineering project
<-> plant <-> product)
Continue to read about life histories and life-cycles
Feedback about these models can be directed to greg@cit.gu.edu.au or
if that does not work to eigroup@cit.gu.edu.au