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Granted Patent B2
US 11,467,560 · App. 16/724,810 · Granted Oct 11, 2022

Engineering support system and engineering support method

Inventors: Isao Hirooka (Tokyo, JP); Tatenobu Seki (Tokyo, JP); Takahiro Kambe (Tokyo, JP); Yuta Machida (Tokyo, JP); Yuri Kimura (Tokyo, JP); Masato Annen (Tokyo, JP); Nobuaki Ema (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
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Patent No.
US 11,467,560
App. No.
16/724,810
Granted
Oct 11, 2022
Kind
B2
Abstract

An engineering support system that supports engineering of a process control system, includes: a storage; and a processor connected to the storage and that: transforms design drawings into semantic models and outputs the semantic models to the storage; and generates a combined semantic model by combining the semantic models based on a degree of similarity among the semantic models and outputs the combined semantic model to the storage, wherein each of the semantic models is expressed by first information indicating elements included in the design drawings and second information indicating a relationship between the elements.

Claims (29)

1. An engineering support system that supports engineering of a process control system, comprising:

a storage; and

a processor connected to the storage and that:

transforms design drawings into semantic models and outputs the semantic models to the storage; and

generates a combined semantic model by combining the semantic models based on a degree of similarity among the semantic models and outputs the combined semantic model to the storage, wherein

each of the semantic models is expressed by first information indicating elements included in the design drawings and second information indicating a relationship between the elements,

the engineering support system further comprises a third database that stores extraction rules for extracting an extracted semantic model from the combined semantic model,

the processor extracts the extracted semantic model from the combined semantic model according to an instruction and the extraction rules, and

the processor creates design drawings based on a type and a range of the instruction using the extracted semantic model.

2. The engineering support system of claim 1 , wherein

the processor calculates the degree of similarity.

3. The engineering support system of claim 2 , further comprising:

a first database that stores calculation rules for calculating the degree of similarity, wherein

the processor calculates the degree of similarity among the semantic models according to the calculation rules.

4. The engineering support system of claim 1 , wherein the degree of similarity indicates a degree of similarity among a plurality of the first information included in the semantic models and a degree of similarity among a plurality of the second information included in the semantic models.

5. The engineering support system of claim 1 , wherein the first information includes information indicating names of the elements and information indicating properties of the elements.

6. The engineering support system of claim 1 , further comprising:

a second database that stores transformation rules for transforming between the design drawings and the semantic models, wherein

the processor transforms a semantic model into the design drawings according to the transformation rules.

7. The engineering support system of claim 1 , further comprising: an application that corrects a semantic model, supports correction of the semantic model, compares the semantic models, or compares combined semantic models.

8. An engineering support method of supporting engineering of a process control system, the method being executed by a processor and comprising:

transforming design drawings into semantic models;

generating a combined semantic model that combines the semantic models based on a degree of similarity among the semantic models;

reading extraction rules from a database for extracting an extracted semantic model from the combined semantic model;

extracting the extracted semantic model from the combined semantic model according to an instruction and the extraction rules; and

creating design drawings based on a type and a range of the instruction using the extracted semantic model, wherein

each of the semantic models is expressed by:

first information indicating elements included in the design drawings; and

second information indicating a relationship between the elements.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 25, 2019
From: HIROOKA, ISAO; SEKI, TATENOBU; KAMBE, TAKAHIRO; MACHIDA, YUTA; KIMURA, YURI; ANNEN, MASATO; EMA, NOBUAKI
To: YOKOGAWA ELECTRIC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 051364/0650 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP JP2018-241195 · Dec 25, 2018 · national
Continuity (1)
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