Control engineering
With a high-fidelity simulator, you will get the most benefits of simulating the ICSS. Here are some examples of using these simulators in the control engineering aspect:
- During the building of the digital twin, the supplier and the end user can collaborate to capture all of the ICSS errors and report them to the project.
This will be discussed further in Chapter 4, OTS Going Forward Toward Digital Twins.
- ICSS error capturing can continue while the digital twin is used for training, and the errors are reported back to the project. The process will need to be controlled and carefully documented.
- Performing alarm rationalization on the digital twin.
- Validating any control strategy changes on the digital twin.
- Validating any safety system changes on the digital twin.
- Tuning all the control loops on the digital twin and moving the parameters to the main ICSS. Doing this away from the control room is a big cost-saving exercise....