SFB 476: Information Technology Support for Collaborative and Distributed Design Processes in Chemical Engineering

自1997年以来，亚琛工业大学计算机科学、过程系统工程、塑料加工、工业工程和人体工程学领域的研究人员共同建立了合作研究中心IMPROVE，其目标是改善化学工程中分布式设计过程的计算机支持。改进研究生命周期的早期阶段，即概念设计和基础工程。一个长期的目标是为化工设计过程精心设计一个集成的过程和产品模型。基于该模型，开发了在集成开发环境中协同协作的新工具。为了避免重复实现可用的功能，尽可能重用现有的工具。开发环境是基于软件架构的，该架构依赖于集成的过程和产品模型，但支持现有工具的后置集成。在一个参考场景（生产聚酰胺的化工厂的设计）的帮助下，对改进中发展的概念进行了评估。

The goal of the collaborative research centre IMPROVE, which has beencarried out by researchers from computer science, process systemsengineering, plastics processing, and industrial engineering andergonomics at RWTH Aachen since 1997, is to improve computer support for distributed design processes in chemical engineering. IMPROVE investigates the early phases of the lifecycle, namely conceptual design and basic engineering. A long-term goal is to elaborate an integrated process and product model for design processes in chemical engineering.Based on this model, new tools are developed which cooperatesynergetically in an integrated development environment. To avoidre-implementation of available functionality, existing tools are re-used wherever possible. The development environment environment is based on a software architecture which relies on the integrated process and product model but supports a posteriori integration of existing tools. The concepts developed in IMPROVE are evaluated with the help of a reference scenario (design of a chemical plant for producing Polyamide6).