Dynamic Simulation as a Test Bed for Emerging Technologies

摘要

The adoption of new technologies is accompanied by risks that the stakeholders will wish tornunderstand and minimise. The process of developing a dynamic simulation and the plant it will bernused in provides a discipline and attention to detail that highlights and provides an opportunity tornmitigate risks that will exist in a production environment. The simulations will enable investigationrnof what the outcome of process failures will be and the impact maintenance. Enumerating thisrninformation will enable designs to be optimised and operating and control strategies to be tested.rnThe success of new technology is dependent on the operators and their understanding of it andrnthe machines that use it. In this context dynamic simulations can provide training and experiencernwithout risk to personnel, equipment or production. This experience will include situations thatrnwould not be induced in a production plant for training purposes.rnThis paper outlines a generic template for a dynamic simulation that can be used to evaluate thernintroduction of an emerging technology into an operating environment. It includes process fl ows andrnsurge capacity, breakdown and maintenance, operator interactions and availability, push and pullrnproduction scheduling and system control.