Examples of best use
In this section, we will show how best to use the OTS and make it a digital twin rather than a training tool only.
Project build
During the project build, the supplier will integrate the model into the recently FATed ICSS and will try to start the plant for the first time in a fully integrated system. This will be the best time to find engineering issues related to the following:
- Control and safety systems.
- Process systems.
- Experience has shown that in all projects, the FATed ICSS will still have many bugs for many reasons.
- Some control strategies can only be tested dynamically. An ICSS FAT usually uses static systems to test the controls.
- Static testing is when signals are tied back, so a pump start command will be fed back as a pump running signal or done via an I/O that is operated by a testing engineer that will make the pump running status active when the pump command is issued. While this test is okay for a stand-alone pump,...