Large-scale capital project cable routing simulator

摘要

A large-scale capital project simulator has a project modeler configured to model the project as a virtual model having cable trays directing cables across the large-scale capital project. The simulator also has a cable router to lay out cables across the virtual model of the large-scale capital project. Each cable has a laid-out cable length. The simulator also has a routing manager to determine optimized routes of the cables across the virtual model. In this case, each cable has an optimized cable length along at least one of the optimized routes. The routing manager formulates an effectiveness ratio for each cable, where each effectiveness ratio uses the laid-out cable length and the optimized cable length. A filter determines whether any of the effectiveness ratios exceeds a prescribed deviation amount. A model controller transforms the virtual model to identify cable(s) exceeding the prescribed deviation amount.