Method for Monitoring A Continuous Industrial Process and System for Performing Said Method

A system for performing a method for monitoring a continuous industrial process, the industrial process comprising:

• a number of processing stations for processing material,
• a material flow between the number of processing stations, wherein each processing station dynamically provides data representing a state of the processing station;
• the method including:
• providing, for each processing station, a processing station layout of the processing station, wherein the processing station layout includes:
• a representation of a physical layout of the processing station, and
• a representation of material flow-paths to and from the processing station,
• wherein the processing station layout is configured for enabling a mapping of the material flow to and from the processing station;
• providing, for each processing station, an interface model of the processing station, wherein the interface model includes:
• a representation of data input ports and data output ports of the processing station,
• wherein the interface model is configured for enabling a mapping of a data flow to the data input ports and from the data output ports of the processing station;
• generating an information metamodel from the processing station layout and the interface model of the number of processing stations, wherein the information metamodel comprises:
• a process layout model, the process layout model including the processing station layouts of the number of processing stations, and
• a process interface model, the process interface model including the interface models of the number of processing stations, and
• generating an adaptive simulation model of the industrial process by importing the data representing the state of the processing station provided by the number of processing stations into the adaptive simulation model via the information metamodel.