Knowledge-based management of change in chemical process industry

摘要

The only constant in chemical process industry (CPI) seems to be change. Although the management of change (MOC) concept has been a common practice in CPI, incidents caused by inadequate MOC on existing systems and processes continue to occur. With the complexity of the processes in CPI increasing, a minor improper change has the potential to lead to serious disruptions. Currently, MOC is mainly performed by human teams. To overcome the disadvantages of the human team-based MOC, an automated knowledge-based MOC expert (MOCexpert) system is presented in this paper. Potential hazards resulting from the changes to the processes can be captured and reported by MOCexpert. A case study is given to illustrate the features of this system.