Method and apparatus for generating a material flow diagram for an industrial plant
AssigneeYokogawa Electric Corporation
InventorWilson Chandra Tjhi
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Abstract
A method of generating a material flow diagram for an industrial plant. The method comprises creating at least one data set from at least one graphics file representing at least a portion of the industrial plant; extracting data from the at least one data set to obtain material-specific data for each of a plurality of distinct materials flowing in the industrial plant; and illustrating the material-specific data of a selected at least one of the plurality of distinct materials as a material flow diagram.
Claims20
A method of generating a material flow diagram for an industrial plant, the method comprising:
- creating at least one data set from at least one graphics file representing at least a portion of the industrial plant, each of the at least one data set contained in a respective material data file for each of a plurality of distinct materials flowing in the industrial plant;
- extracting and automatically sorting data from the at least one data set to obtain material-specific data for each of the plurality of distinct materials flowing in the industrial plant;
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- illustrating the material-specific data of a selected at least one of the plurality of distinct materials as a material flow diagram.
An apparatus for generating a material flow diagram for an industrial plant, the apparatus comprising:
- a data set creation module configured for creating at least one data set from at least one graphics file representing the industrial plant, each of the at least one data set contained in a respective material data file for each of a plurality of distinct materials flowing in the industrial plant;
- a data extraction module configured for extracting and automatically sorting data from the at least one data set to obtain material-specific data for each of the plurality of distinct materials flowing in the industrial plant;
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- a flow illustrating module configured for illustrating the material-specific data of a selected one of the plurality of distinct materials as a material flow diagram.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.