COMMON PLANT MODEL FOR MODELING PHYSICAL PLANT ITEMS OF A PRODUCTION PLANT

The common plant model offers the possibility to create a mechanism that allows an easier linking of plant items from an engineering aspect being independent of the system, such as MES, SCADA, DCS, ERP, the engineer is working with. The common plant model includes: a node type model aggregating different aspects for the modeling of a single physical plant item; a number of nodes; a library model with a project library and a global library; and a wiring chart model defining the interaction between interface members of different facets. Each facet has at least one interface member and the logical link among the interface members is a virtual wire defining a connection used to propagate and align facet parameters linked to a specific node. The wiring chart is usable by different users. The SCADA and DCS systems have access to the distinct modeling of their individual needs.