Research Conference Proposal: "Foundations of Computer Aided Process Operations" July 5-10, 1987 - Park City, Utah

化工过程工业的现状表明， 与其在附近建造许多新的化工厂， 今后，更多的注意力将集中在手术上， 改进和修改现有的工厂，其中许多 较旧的设计和多产品和/或批量性质。 的 对业务问题日益关注的原因是 数量众多，包括： 1. 传统市场的国际竞争加剧 导致更加强调产品成本和质量; 2. 低成本计算机技术的可用性， 通信网络和电子仪器; 3. 专家系统等新方法的快速进展， 机器人技术、数据库技术和复杂的人机 接口; 4. 众所周知的自动化努力， 离散零件的计算机化计划和操作 制造业。 5. 近年来国际上对制造业安全操作的关注 设施，特别是那些处理或加工危险 材料. 然而，尽管工厂运营的重要性日益提高， 讨论和管理关注的主题，计算机辅助 电厂运行尚未得到高度重视 由化学工程研究界，无论是在 在工业界或学术界。 化学专业的学术培训 工程师们继续强调设计， 排除操作。 本次会议的目的是 通过提供一个论坛， 审查这一新的化学品领域的问题和需要 工程研究和应用，从而促进 研究活动，并鼓励引进业务 学术课程中的问题。 本次会议将是第一次研究会议的重点 特别是计算机和计算机的应用 技术到化学工艺操作。 出席者将 举行为期一周的会议，评估目前的状况和未来 计算机集成过程操作的方向。 的 总体规划是一个方案，分为八个主题： 数据采集和接口、过程安全、操作 计划，维修计划，过程仿真，过程 优化、工厂网络和数据库以及专家系统 在工厂操作中。

The present status of the chemical process industries indicates that rather than build many new chemical plants in the near future, more attention will be focused on the operation, improvement, and modification of existing plants, many of them of older design and of a multiproduct and/or batch nature. The stimuli for such growing concerns with operational issues are numerous and include: 1. heightened international competition for traditional markets resulting in increased emphasis on product cost and quality; 2. the availability of low cost computer technology, communications networks, and electronic instrumentation; 3. rapid progress in new methodologies such as expert systems, robotics, database techniques, and sophisticated man-machine interfaces; 4. the well-publicized efforts towards automation and computerized planning and operation in the discrete parts manufacturing industries. 5. recent international focus on safe operation of manufacturing facilities, especially those handling or processing hazardous materials. However, in spite of the rising prominence of plant operations as a subject for discussion and management concern, computer aided plant operation has not yet been given a high level of attention by the chemical engineering research community, either in industry or in academia. The academic training of chemical engineers continues to emphasize design at the almost toatl exclusion of operations. The purpose of this conference is to redress this situation by providing a forum for an in-depth review of the problems and needs in this new area of chemical engineering research and application and to thus stimulate research activity and encourage the introduction of operations issues in academic programs. This conference will be the first research conference focused specifically on the applications of computers and computer technology to chemical process operations. The attendees will meet for one week to assess the current status and future directions of computer integrated process operations. The overall plan is a program arranged into eight themes: process data acquisition and interfaces, process safety, operations planning, maintenance planning, process simulation, process optimization, plant networks and data bases, and expert systems in plant operations.